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theory under uncertainty, we show that abatement is decreasing in the probability of success of SRM, but that this relation …
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The paper clarifies the link between changes in risk aversion and the effect on the consumption discount rate. In a … rate to a change in risk aversion depends on some fundamental properties of the considered uncertainties. The application … of this general result to specific forms of uncertainty extends existing results to more general forms of risk and yields …
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Given disparate beliefs about economic growth, technical change and damage caused by climate change, this paper starts with the seeming impossibility of determining a unique time profile of the social costs of carbon as a benchmark for climate negotiations and for infrastructure decisions that...
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Models (IAMs), which assumes no risk sharing across region, we introduce global risk sharing via a market for state … across regions. We estimate that such risk sharing scheme of climate risks could lead to welfare gains reducing the global … for considering risk sharing in IAMs, but also for potentially welfare increasing negotiations about sharing risks of …
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Sensitivity (proportionality) of willingness to pay to (small) risk changes is often used as a criterion to test for …,005 respondents were asked their willingness to pay (WTP) for preventing an increase in risk by 1/42,500 and 3/42,500, respectively …. WTP for the higher risk variation is significantly higher than WTP for the lower risk change. We find evidence that those …
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The risk of losses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly … levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable uncertainty. Moreover, the costs associated to investments in reduced …, climatic event, we expected to observe, and found high levels of risk aversion, but we do observe farmers making trade …
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Uncertainty plays a key role in the economics of climate change, and the discussions surrounding its implications for climate policy are far from settled. We give an overview of the literature on uncertainty in integrated assessment models of climate change and identify some future research...
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for the risk of irreversibility induces more conservative decisions regarding consumption and polluting emissions. In …
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framework, suboptimal decision-making (the introduction of prospect theory's decision weights, biases in risk perception and …, where capital accumulates through increased density of capital at risk in a given area, it is optimal for (i) the … probability of disaster occurrence to decrease with income; (ii) the capital at risk – and thus the economic losses in case of …
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The precautionary principle (PP) applied to environmental policy stipulates that, in the presence of physical uncertainty, society must take robust preventive action to guard against worst-case outcomes. It follows that the higher the degree of uncertainty, the more aggressive this preventive...
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