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)actions, the more weight they receive. If uncertainty is endogenous to the decision process, the new rationale for discounting will …
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The prevailing literature discusses intergenerational trade-offs in climate change predominantly in terms of the Ramsey equation relying on the infinitely lived agent model. We discuss these trade-offs in a continuous time OLG framework and relate our results to the infinitely lived agent...
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Policies affecting the cost of energy use provide correct incentives for technology choices only if there is a market reward for energy efficiency. We provide clean evidence for market efficiency by considering how heating technologies capitalize into house values using detailed Finnish register...
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Under conditions of risk it makes a difference whether the discount rate is determined as an expected present or as an expected future value. This difference which is dubbed as the Weitzman-Gollier puzzle has stimulated an intensive discussion which, however, is somewhat confusing. In this paper...
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I offer a selective review of discounting and climate policy. Analytic and numerical models show that different …, affects the role of discounting. I argue that the assertion that the risk of catastrophic damage overwhelms discounting is … unfounded. I show that the claim that we “view the world in perspective” implies hyperbolic rather than constant discounting. …
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assumption of (intertemporal) risk neutrality reduces the growth effect in social discounting and significantly amplifies the …
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possibly millennia to the future. To reconcile the discounting of such far-distant impacts and realism of the shorter …
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Based on the Ramsey equation and an ethically motivated rejection of pure utility time discount, the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change concentrates on the use of the elasticity of marginal utility ç in the intergenerational social welfare function. We support this position by...
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resolution of risk, (iii) show different discounting formulas depending on the magnitude of risk and on the timing of its …
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studies. Discounting reduces present-value leakage as global emissions are delayed. Containing climate change requires future …
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