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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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Unintended consequences of a pre-announced climate policy have been studied in a variety of situations. We show that early announcement of a carbon tax gives rise to a “Green-Paradox,” in that it increases polluting emissions in the interim period (between announcement and actual...
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Climate physics predicts that the intensity of natural disasters will increase in the future due to climate change. We present a stochastic model of a growing economy where natural disasters are multiple and random, with damages driven by the economy’s polluting activity. We provide a...
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This paper deals with three aspects of spectacular oil price episodes such as the one witnessed in 2008. First, the concept of temporary explosiveness is proposed as an empirical method for capturing this type of behavior. The application of a recently proposed recursive unit root test shows...
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and with respect to non-risk uncertainty. The paper derives the resulting changes of the risk-free and the stochastic …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 …
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According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, global collective action is needed to stabilize “greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous [our emphasis] anthropogenic interference with the climate system.” The Framework Convention thus...
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scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased greenhouse gas concentrations on climate. Criticisms of this controversial …
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Two main approaches have been implemented in regional CO2 markets to address competitiveness and carbon leakage: output based allocation (Australia, California, New Zealand) and capacity based allocation (EU). This paper characterizes the best policy, given that auctioning with border adjustment...
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This paper focuses on two equity dimensions of climate policy, intra- and intergenerational, and analyzes the implications of equity preferences on climate policy, and on the production and consumption patterns in rich and poor countries. We develop a dynamic two-region model, in which each...
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In our analytical general equilibrium model where two polluting inputs can be substitutes or complements in production, we study the effects of a tax on one pollutant in two cases: one where both pollutants face taxes and the second where the other pollutant is subject to a permit policy. In...
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