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The estimated values to society from long-term public projects, including climate change mitigation and infrastructure … alternative ethical approaches to standard Utilitarian calculus. In the politicized world of long-term decision-making, this paper … nuanced decision-making today and lead to multidisciplinary support for climate action …
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quantitative easing (QE) in complementing fiscal policies for climate change mitigation. We model green QE through an outstanding …
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Council – was reached after a long-lasting discourse over the 2030 EU climate and energy policy package. This paper offers a … set so high that the derived emissions reduction exceeds the EU climate target. Hence, carbon prices are redundant in … reaching the EU climate goal. This policy, however, is not cost efficient …
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emission certificate regulation, and we consider the impact of changes in EU climate policy on the rest of the world as well as … implemented, the low carbon countries will prefer a lower carbon price, i.e. laxer climate policy at the EU level, than before the … reform. For high carbon countries the opposite is true. As a result, EU climate policy becomes less ambitious and less …
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The extent of future climate change is a policy choice. Using an integrated climate-economy assessment model, we … estimate climate policy curves (CPCs) that link the price of carbon dioxide (CO2) to subsequent global temperatures. The … how climate policy choices determine climate outcomes. Our analysis can account for a variety of climate policies …
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We review the literature studying interactions between climate change and financial markets. We first discuss various … approaches to incorporating climate risk in macro-finance models. We then review the empirical literature that explores the … pricing of climate risks across a large number of asset classes including real estate, equities, and fixed income securities …
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The social rate of discount is a crucial driver of the social cost of carbon (SCC), i.e. the expected present discounted value of marginal damages resulting from emitting one ton of carbon today. Policy makers should set carbon prices to the SCC using a carbon tax or a competitive permits...
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A two-tier climate club exploits the comparative advantage of large countries to mete out punishments through trade … a single-tier climate club in which many stable coalitions are possible, the stable coalition in the calibrated model is …
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I build a quantitative model of economic growth that can be used to evaluate the impact of environmental policy interventions on final-use energy consumption, an important driver of carbon emissions. In the model, energy demand is driven by directed technical change. Energy supply is subject to...
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Weitzman's Dismal Theorem has that the expected net present value of a stock problem with a stochastic growth rate with unknown variance is unbounded. Cost-benefit analysis can therefore not be applied to greenhouse gas emission control. We use the Generalized Central Limit Theorem to show that...
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