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Recent thinking about the economics of climate change has concerned the uncertainty about the upper bound of both climate sensitivity to greenhouse gases and the damages that might occur at high temperatures. This argument suggests that the appropriate probability distributions for these factors...
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This paper in applied theory argues that there is a loose chain of reasoning connecting the following three basic links in the economics of climate change: 1) additive disutility damages may be appropriate for analyzing some impacts of global warming; 2) an uncertain feedback-forcing...
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The Ramsey rule for the consumption rate of discount assumes a transfer of money of a (representative) agent at one point in time to the same agent at another point in time. Climate policy (implicitly) transfers money not just over time but also between agents. I propose three alternative...
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The rationale of voluntary corporate initiatives is often explained with anticipation of future regulation. We test this hypothesis for the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and the Climate Leaders (CL), two popular voluntary US environmental programs to curb carbon emission that were operating...
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This note considers the treatment of risk and uncertainty in the recently established social cost of carbon (SCC) for … discounting, it mis-estimated climate risk, possibly hugely. Given the uncertainty about estimating the SCC, the note concludes by …
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This note considers the treatment of risk and uncertainty in the recently established social cost of carbon (SCC) for … discounting, it mis-estimated climate risk, possibly hugely. Given the uncertainty about estimating the SCC, the note concludes by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305979
veröffentlichten Fachartikeln. Durch die gegenwärtig öffentlich geführte Diskussion zum Thema Klimawandel stehen europäische … Anpassungsstrategien an den Klimawandel'. …
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Zusammenhang zwischen Klimawandel, Politikmaßnahmen und Wirtschaft darzustellen. Dabei zielen die unterschiedlichen Methoden auf …
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has three components: the pure rate of time preference, a measure of relative risk aversion, and the rate of growth of per … respect to consumption is particularly important because it assumes three roles: consumption smoothing over time, risk … rates of risk and inequity version can be expected to play significant roles. The consumption growth rate plays four roles …
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has three components: the pure rate of time preference, a measure of relative risk aversion, and the rate of growth of per … respect to consumption is particularly important because it assumes three roles: consumption smoothing over time, risk … rates of risk and inequity aversion can be expected to play significant roles. The consumption growth rate plays multiple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298642