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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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Overlapping Climate Policies
Perino, Grischa - 2019
Major carbon-pricing systems in Europe and North America involve multiple jurisdictions (countries or states). Individual jurisdictions often pursue additional initiatives—such as unilateral carbon price floors, legislation to phase out coal, aviation taxes or support programs for renewable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890770
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Leakage, Welfare, and Cost-Effectiveness of Carbon Policy
Baylis, Kathy - 2014
We extend the model of Fullerton, Karney, and Baylis (2012 working paper) to explore cost-effectiveness of unilateral climate policy in the presence of leakage. We ignore the welfare gain from reducing greenhouse gas emissions and focus on the welfare cost of the emissions tax or permit scheme....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064305
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Reconsidering the Costs of Business Cycles with Incomplete Markets
Atkeson, Andrew - 2011
In this paper, we measure the potential welfare gains from counter-cyclical policy in an economy with incomplete markets. In the course of conducting this measurement, we focus on two questions as central to the determination of those potential gains: (1) what is the likely effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124598
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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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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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Credit Booms, Financial Crises and Macroprudential Policy
Gertler, Mark; Kiyotaki, Nobuhiro; Prestipino, Andrea - 2022
We develop a model of banking crises which Is consistent with two important features of the data: First, banking crises are usually preceded by credit booms. Second, credit booms often do not result in a crisis. That is, there are "good" booms as well as "bad" booms in the language of Gorton and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307160
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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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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