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The social cost of carbon with intragenerational inequality under economic uncertainty
Ploeg, Frederick van der; Emmerling, Johannes; Groom, … - 2022
A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk...
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Diverse risk preferences and heterogeneous expectations in an asset pricing model
Gomez, Thomas; Piccillo, Giulia - 2019
We propose a heuristic switching model of an asset market where the agents' choice of heuristic is consistent with their individual risk aversion. They choose between a fundamentalist and a trend-following rule to form expectations about the price of a risky asset. Given their risk aversion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157926
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Overconfidence in investment decisions : an experimental approach
Dittrich, Dennis; Güth, Werner; Maciejovsky, Boris - 2001
We experimentally test overconfidence in investment decisions by offering participants the possibility to substitute their own for alternative investment choices. Overall, 149 subjects participated in two experiments, one with just one risky asset, the other with two risky assets. Overconfidence...
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Long-term trends in the distribution of wealth and inheritance
Davies, James B.; Lluberas, Rodrigo; Waldenström, Daniel - 2024
This paper examines long-term trends in aggregate wealth and inheritance and in their distributions, focusing on … developed economies. A key stylized fact is that wealth is less equally distributed than income. Financial assets predominate … among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is crucial for middle groups, so higher stock prices raise wealth inequality …
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Closed-form integrated assessment and uncertainty
Traeger, Christian - 2015
The paper derives the optimal carbon tax in closed-form from an integrated assessment of climate change. The formula shows how carbon, temperature, and economic dynamics quantify the optimal mitigation effort. The model's descriptive power is comparable to numeric models used in policy advising....
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Pay few subjects but pay them well : cost-effectiveness of random incentive systems
March, Christoph; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony; Greiner, Ben; … - 2016
Most large-scale economic experiments use a between-subjects random incentive system-BRIS-which selects a subset of the participants at random and offers real payment only to the selected participants. We evaluate the relative impact of nominal payoffs and the selection probability on the...
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The trade-off between intra- and intergenerational equity in climate policy
Kverndokk, Snorre; Nævdal, Eric; Nøstbakken, Linda - 2013
This paper focuses on two equity dimensions of climate policy, intra- and intergenerational equity, 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...
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Behind the support for redistributive politics : social preferences or beliefs?
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Cabrales, Antonio; Espinosa, … - 2024
In this paper we explore how individual social preferences correlate with political support for redistribution. We ran an incentivized experiment with a large representative sample of the Spanish population. Our participants took six decisions that elicited their social preferences. Their...
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On welfare frameworks and catastrophic climate risks
Millner, Antony - 2013
Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to "fat-tailed" risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009b). Such risks are suggested to be an inevitable consequence of scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199723
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Probability adjusted rank-discounted utilitarianism
Asheim, Geir B.; Zuber, Stéphane - 2014
We propose and axiomatize probability adjusted rank-discounted critical-level generalized utilitarianism (PARDCLU). We thus generalize rank-discounted utilitarianism (RDU) (proposed by Zuber and Asheim, 2012) to variable population and risky situations and thereby take important steps towards...
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