Anthoff, David; Tol, Richard S. J.; Yohe, Gary W. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
It is well-known that the discount rate is crucially important for estimating the social cost of carbon, a standard … estimate of the social cost of carbon. We even show that, for a low pure rate of time preference, the estimate of the social … that the social cost of carbon, corrected for uncertainty and inequity, is 61 US dollar per metric tonne of carbon. …