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. What additional economic cost of mitigation measures will this delay imply? At the same time, the uncertainty surrounding … this uncertainty cost? Is there a hedging strategy that decision makers can adopt to cope with delayed action and uncertain … computing the optimal abatement strategy in the presence of uncertainty about a global stabilisation target (which will be …
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Most analyses of the Kyoto flexibility mechanisms focus on the cost effectiveness of “where” flexibility (e.g. by showing that mitigation costs are lower in a global permit market than in regional markets or in permit markets confined to Annex 1 countries). Less attention has been devoted to...
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This paper studies the implications for climate policy of the interactions between environmental and knowledge externalities. Using a numerical analysis performed with the hybrid integrated assessment model WITCH, extended to include mutual spillovers between the energy and the non-energy...
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This paper provides a quantitative comparison of the main architectures for an agreement on climate policy. Possible successors to the Kyoto protocol are assessed according to four criteria: economic efficiency; environmental effectiveness; distributional implications; and their political...
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countries. Finally, uncertainty about the timing of NA1-country participation does not modify the optimal abatement strategy for …
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decision problems under uncertainty, is used to build a large stochastic numerical equilibrium model of the Western European … energy markets. We use the stochastic model to analyze the impact of economic and political uncertainty on the Western … European energy markets. We demonstrate that the equilibria under uncertainty differ significantly from the deterministic …
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uncertainty. The results, that imply prudent behavior due to uncertainty, are compared with the ambiguous outcomes reported in the …
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scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased greenhouse gas concentrations on climate. Criticisms of this controversial …
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Uncertainty has an almost negligible impact on project value in the economic standard model. I show that a … comprehensive evaluation of uncertainty and uncertainty attitude changes this picture fundamentally. The analysis relies on the … and with respect to non-risk uncertainty. The paper derives the resulting changes of the risk-free and the stochastic …
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future utility when uncertainty increases over time. The more we know about the future welfare consequences of our (in …)actions, the more weight they receive. If uncertainty is endogenous to the decision process, the new rationale for discounting will …
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