1. Introduction -- 2. Description of Developed Countries’ Climate Policy -- 3. Description of BRICS and Indonesia’s Climate Policy -- 4. Literature Review on Emissions Convergence -- 5. Data and Empirical Strategy -- 6. Econometric Methods -- 7. Empirical Results -- 8. PANIC Results -- 9....

This survey examines the history and current practice in integrated assessment models (IAMs) of the economics of climate change. It begins with a review of the emerging problem of climate change. The next section provides a brief sketch of the rise of IAMs in the 1970s and beyond. The subsequent...