• Primary Program Energy and Macroeconomics
  • Research Interests Developing energy and economic models, analyzing the effects of various policies on an economy, applications of OR to climate change control policies, green supply chain management, large-scale optimization, convex relaxation and decomposition techniques and big data analytics in supply chains.

Biography

Hossa is a research fellow at KAPSARC. She is also currently the Think20’s (T20’s) Sherpa and is leading T20 Saudi Arabia’s secretariat. She is also the lead co-chair of T20 Saudi Arabia’s task force “sustainable energy, water and food systems.” Before joining KAPSARC, Hossa was a faculty member at the University of Wilfrid Laurier, Canada. Her research interests include developing energy and economic models to study the impact of energy and environmental policies on economies, sustainable development and wealth accounting. Her work aims to provide policymakers and practitioners with decision support tools that can help identify the challenges, opportunities, and solutions associated with moving toward sustainable energy and sustainable business practices. Her work has been published in many peer-reviewed journals. She has a Ph.D. and a master’s degree in applied operations research from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia.

Publications

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  • Discussion papers
  • KAPSARC journal articles
  • External journal articles
  • Think20 (T20)
Resilience of Saudi Arabia’s Economy to Oil Shocks: Effects of Economic Reforms

Resilience of Saudi Arabia’s Economy to Oil Shocks: Effects of Economic Reforms

We assess the extent to which the implementation of Saudi Vision 2030 policies enhances the Saudi economy’s resilience to oil price and production shocks, and to the productivity of tradable and non-tradable goods. We extend Blazquez et al.’s (2021) dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to capture the country’s economic diversification policies and build a resilience index based on impulse responses to shocks.    

23rd September 2022
Sectoral and Economy-Wide Effects of Domestic Energy Price Reforms in Saudi Arabia

Sectoral and Economy-Wide Effects of Domestic Energy Price Reforms in Saudi Arabia

This paper simulates the sectoral and economy-wide consequences of deregulating energy prices in Saudi Arabia. Our analysis is based on KAPSARC’s general equilibrium energy model (KEMGE), a new hybrid computable general equilibrium model (CGE). The model examines the effects of full price deregulation, starting in 2019, on economic activity and revenue in the year 2030.

19th August 2020
Carbon tax based on the emission factor: a bilevel programming approach

Carbon tax based on the emission factor: a bilevel programming approach

Journal of Global Optimization

2014
Modeling, analysis, and evaluation of a carbon tax policy based on the emission factor

Modeling, analysis, and evaluation of a carbon tax policy based on the emission factor

Computers & Industrial Engineering

2014
A new Lagrangean approach to the pooling problem

A new Lagrangean approach to the pooling problem

Journal of Global Optimization

2009

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Managing Energy Transitions in Developing Countries

Co-hosted With Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations and in partnership with the Think 20 (T20) Saudi Arabia Pathways to the transition The overarching global issue, irrespective of whether in developing or developed countries, would be to identify the role of hydrocarbons in a net-zero carbon future. The overall goal is to achieve […]

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