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In a Ramsey policy regime, heterogeneity in beliefs about the potential costs of climate change is shown to produce policy ambiguities that alter carbon prices and taxation. Three sources of ambiguity are considered: (i) the private sector is skeptical, with beliefs that are unknown to the...
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role of learning and risk aversion. It bridges two strands of literature: one focused on the role learning for the success … of IEA formation when countries are risk neutral and another that explores the implications of uncertainty and risk … aversion on IEA formation under no learning. Combining learning and risk aversion seems appropriate as the uncertainties …
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This paper is a revised version of: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=2667972" https://ssrn.com/abstract=2667972.The Analytic Climate Economy (ACE) closes a gap between analytic climate change assessments and quantitative numeric integrated assessment models (IAMs) used in policy advising. Its...
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role of learning and risk aversion. It bridges two strands of literature: one focused on the role learning for the success … of IEA formation when countries are risk neutral and another that explores the implications of uncertainty and risk … aversion on IEA formation under no learning. Combining learning and risk aversion seems appropriate as the uncertainties …
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What do climate change, global financial crises, pandemics, and fragility and conflict have in common? They are all examples of global risks that can cross geographical and generational boundaries and whose mismanagement can reverse gains in development and jeopardize the well-being of...
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assessment model (IAM) with long-run risk, adapting methods from the asset pricing literature to deal with endogenous climate … risk. The model solves in closed-form for general degrees of risk aversion, stochastic climate feedbacks, and a stochastic …
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This study investigates the impact of climate change adaptation on farm households’ downside risk exposure in the Nile … characteristics of farmers and their farm. We find that past adaptation to climate change (i) reduces current downside risk exposure …, and so the risk of crop failure; (ii) would have been more beneficial to the non-adapters if they adapted, in terms of …
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We develop indices of Twitter-based Chinese Climate Uncertainty (TC-CU) and Climate Policy Uncertainty (TC-CPU). Our indices spike with climate change-related president announcements, UN climate change conferences, climate change-related flood deaths, warning about melting glaciers in China's...
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