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Florio, Massimo; Sirtori, Emanuela - 2014 - This draft: 21.10.2014

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Barrett, Scott; Hoel, Michael - 2004

Using a dynamic model of the control of an infectious disease, we derive the conditions under which eradication will be optimal. When eradication is feasible, the optimal program requires either a low vaccination rate or eradication. A high vaccination rate is never optimal. Under special...

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Cost utility analyses : what should be measured, utility, value or healthy year equivalents?

Richardson, Jeffrey Ralph James - 1992

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"Mitigation, adaptation, suffering" : in search of the right mix in the face of climate change

Tulkens, Henry; Van Steenberghe, Vincent - 2009

The usually assumed two categories of costs involved in climate change policy analysis, namely abatement and damage costs, hide the presence of a third category, namely adaptation costs. This dodges the determination of an appropriate level for them. Including adaptation costs explicitly in the...

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Les impacts économiques du changement climatique : enjeux de modélisation

Besson, Pierre; Kousnetzoff, Nina - 2009

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Disentangling the Stern/Nordhaus controversy : beyond the discounting clash

Espagne, Etienne; Perrissin Fabert, Baptiste; Pottier, … - 2012

The Stern/Nordhaus controversy has polarized the widely disparate beliefs about what to do in order to tackle the climate challenge. To explain differences in results and policy recommendations, comments following the publication of the Stern Review have mainly focused on the role played by 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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The optimal share of variable renewables : how the variability of wind and solar power affects their welfare-optimal deployment

Hirth, Lion - 2013

This paper estimates the welfare-optimal market share of wind and solar power, explicitly taking into account their …

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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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Does the cause of death matter? : the effect of dread, controllability, exposure and latency on the Vsl

Alberini, Anna; Šcasný, Milan - 2010

The Value of a Statistical Life is a key input into the calculation of the benefits of environmental policies that save lives. To date, the VSL used in environmental policy analyses has not been adjusted for age or the cause of death. Air pollution regulations, however, are linked to reductions...

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