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the risk-adjusted interest rate. Adding damages leads to a higher carbon price that grows more slowly. But as temperature …
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perturbation theory to derive an approximate tractable expression for this cost adjusted for climatic and economic risk. We allow … for different aversion to risk and intertemporal fluctuations, skewness and dynamics in the risk distributions of climate …
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Climate change is a serious concern worldwide. Policy research on climate change in the past decades has largely focused on applied modelling exercises. However, the implications of specific policy strategies such as the clean development mechanism (CDM) for global and regional economic and...
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This paper uses the Kaldor-Hicks compensation principle to compute the present value (PV) of a non-marginal future event. Three theoretical results stand out: First, decreasing returns to capital create a wedge between the PV of future generations' willingness to pay (WTP) and the PV of their...
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This paper develops a dynamic model consisting of two regions (North and South), in which the accumulation of human capital is negatively influenced by the global stock of pollution. By characterizing the equilibrium strategy of each region, we show that the regions' best responses can be...
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analyze the effect of risk aversion, ambiguity aversion and the elasticity of intertemporal substitution on the willingness to … pay to avoid climate change risk. The first part of the paper analyzes a general disaster (jump) risk model with a … constant arrival rate of disasters. This provides useful intuition in how preferences influence valuation of long-term risk …
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, while houses exposed to climate risk face a price discount in the market, I demonstrate that the materialization of climate … change risk puts upward pressure on house prices, as the supply of such houses becomes reduced. This general equilibrium …
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We assess whether climate transition risk is priced in Europe's equity market by analysing relative equity returns of … effect models, however, provide some evidence for increased pricing of climate transition risk after the Paris Agreement. …
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We study whether floods can affect financial stability through a credit risk channel. Our focus is on the Netherlands …
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