surplusChange

calculates aggregate change in economic surplus in mio.US$ based on a MAgPIE gdx files from two different scenarios.

Usage

surplusChange(gdx1, gdx2, file = NULL, level = "reg", type = "consumer")

Arguments

gdx1

GDX file from benchmark scenario

gdx2

GDX file from the analyzed scenario

file

a file name the output should be written to using write.magpie

level

Level of regional aggregation; "reg" (regional), "glo" (global), "regglo" (regional and global) or any other aggregation level defined in superAggregate

type

Economic surplus type: "consumer" (default), "producer" or "welfare"

Value

A MAgPIE object containing aggregate changes in producer surplus, consumer surplus and aggregate economic welfare between an analyzed scenario and a benchmark scenario, in million $US.

Author

Miodrag Stevanovic

Examples

  if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
    x <- surplusChange(gdx1, gdx2)
  } # }