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A good opening : the key to make the most of unilateral climate action

Bosetti, Valentina; De Cian, Enrica - 2011

In this paper we argue that when a subgroup of countries cooperate on emission reduction, the optimal response of non-signatory countries reflects the interaction between three potentially opposing factors, the incentive to free-ride on the benefits of cooperation, the incentive to expand the...

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Incentives and stability of international climate coalitions : an integrated assessment

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica; … - 2011

assumptions concerning the pure rate of time preference, the social welfare aggregator and the extent of climate damages. We focus …

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Priority for the worse off and the social cost of carbon

Adler, Matthew D.; Anthoff, David; Bosetti, Valentina; … - 2016

reduction in current consumption that produces a loss in social welfare equivalent to that caused by the emission of a ton of CO …2. The standard approach is to calculate the SCC using a discounted-utilitarian social welfare function (SWF)-one that … welfare economics, but has been, thus far, little used in climate scholarship. The core idea is to give greater weight to well …

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Recalculating the social cost of carbon

Shayegh, Soheil; Bosetti, Valentina; Dietz, Simon; … - 2018

Over the last few decades, integrated assessment models (IAM) have provided insight into the relationship between climate change, economy, and climate policies. The limitations of these models in capturing uncertainty in climate parameters, heterogeneity in damages and policies, have given rise...

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