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On a World Climate Assembly and the Social Cost of Carbon
Weitzman, Martin - 2016
This paper postulates the conceptually useful allegory of a futuristic “World Climate Assembly” (WCA) that votes for a … emitter's single-peaked most-preferred world price of carbon emissions to the world “Social Cost of Carbon” (SCC). The second … and third propositions relate the WCA-voted world price of carbon to the world SCC. I argue that the WCA-voted price and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979375
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The Social Cost of Carbon Revisited
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2016
An estimate of the social cost of carbon (SCC) is key to climate policy. But how should we estimate the SCC? A common approach is to use an integrated assessment model (IAM) to simulate time paths for the atmospheric CO2 concentration, its impact on global mean temperature, and the resulting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979765
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Which Social Cost of Carbon? A Theoretical Perspective
Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2016
This paper develops a theoretical foundation for the social cost of carbon (SCC). The model highlights the source of debate over whether countries should use the global or domestic SCC for regulatory impact analysis. I identify conditions under which a country's decision to internalize the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992145
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The Environmental Cost of Global Fuel Subsidies
Davis, Lucas W. - 2016
quantifies the external costs of global fuel subsidies using the latest available data and estimates from the World Bank and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996460
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The External Costs of Transporting Petroleum Products by Pipelines and Rail : Evidence from Shipments of Crude Oil from North Dakota
Clay, Karen - 2017
This paper constructs new estimates of the air pollution and greenhouse gas costs from long-distance movement of petroleum products by rail and pipelines. While crude oil transportation has generated intense policy debate about rail and pipeline spills and accidents, important externalities –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947021
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Has Creative Destruction Become More Destructive?
Komlos, John - 2014
Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction as the engine of capitalist development is well-known. However, that the destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP and on welfare is hardly acknowledged, with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048999
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The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth : Evidence from 6,700 Cyclones
Hsiang, Solomon - 2014
Does the environment have a causal effect on economic development? Using meteorological data, we reconstruct every country's exposure to the universe of tropical cyclones during 1950-2008. We exploit random within-country year-to-year variation in cyclone strikes to identify the causal effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049691
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Price of Long-Run Temperature Shifts in Capital Markets
Bansal, Ravi - 2016
We use the forward-looking information from the US and global capital markets to estimate the economic impact of global warming, specifically, long-run temperature shifts. We find that global warming carries a positive risk premium that increases with the level of temperature and that has almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984763
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Welfare Costs of Long-Run Temperature Shifts
Bansal, Ravi - 2011
consumption, and the total dollar costs of completely insuring against temperature variation are 2.46% of world GDP. If we allow … world GDP. We show that the same features, long-run risks and recursive-preferences, that account for the risk-free rate and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118836
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Estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon : Background and Results from the Rice-2011 Model
Nordhaus, William D. - 2011
A new and important concept in global warming economics and policy is the social cost of carbon or SCC. This concept represents the economic cost caused by an additional ton of carbon-dioxide emissions or its equivalent. The present study describes the development of the concept as well as its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119046