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-DICE2016, which is designed to address three key aspects of climateeconomy models: treatment of uncertainty, the use of more … difficulties identified with IAMs, the choice of the risk aversion parameter and the underestimation of damages, are also directly … parameters whose distributions have "fat tails". Uncertainty is accommodated via the state-contingent approach enabling us to …
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Net-zero climate policies foresee deployment of atmospheric carbon dioxide removal wit geo-logical, terrestrial, or marine carbon storage. While terrestrial and geological storage would be governed under the framework of national property rights, marine storage implies that carbon is transferred...
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intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk aversion. If growth increases (reduces) intra-generational inequality, the SDR is …
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-form expressions of welfare loss from shocks and epistemological uncertainty identify the interaction of (intertemporal) risk attitude … is comparable to numeric models used in policy advising. Uncertainty surrounding climate change remains large. The closed …, distributional moments, and the climatic shadow values. Welfare gains from reducing uncertainty about temperature feedbacks are much …
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making under uncertainty. It clarifies the distinct roles of risk aversion, prudence, characteristics of the damage … formulation, and future policy response. We show that an optimal response to uncertainty substantially reduces the risk premium. … the resulting warming over the next decades and centuries highly uncertain. We quantify how this uncertainty changes the …
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growth rate impact if damages are presumably severe. We also study the effect of varying risk aversion and elasticity of … intertemporal substitution on our results. If damages are moderate for high temperatures, risk aversion only matters when climate … temperatures, then the results also become sensitive to risk aversion for both damage specifications. …
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and with respect to non-risk uncertainty. The paper derives the resulting changes of the risk-free and the stochastic … ; discounting ; intertemporal substitutability ; risk aversion ; uncertainty …Uncertainty has an almost negligible impact on project value in the economic standard model. I show that a …
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Climate change not only impacts production and market consumption, but also the relative scarcity of non-market goods, such as environmental amenities. We study fundamental drivers of the resulting relative price changes, their potential magnitude, and their implications for climate policy in...
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DICE based on empirical evidence and propose a plausible range for relative price changes. The uncertainty is substantial …
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of this general result to specific forms of uncertainty extends existing results to more general forms of risk and yields …The paper clarifies the link between changes in risk aversion and the effect on the consumption discount rate. In a … general framework that can cope with various forms of uncertainty, it is shown that the response of the consumption discount …
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