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Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges in current environmental policy. Appropriate policies intended to stimulate efficient adaptation and mitigation should not exclusively rely on the assumption of the homo oeconomicus, but take advantage of well-researched alternative...
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heterogeneous countries with the notable feature of model misspecification on the impacts from SRM. We find that deep uncertainty …
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that stochastic technology growth hardly affects the optimal bundle of mitigation and adaptation whereas uncertainty about … composition of the optimal mix as both persuade the risk-averse social planner to invest more in mitigation. Overall, we identify … that including uncertainty into the model tends to favour (long-lasting) mitigation with respect to (instantaneous …
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-DICE2016, which is designed to address three key aspects of climateeconomy models: treatment of uncertainty, the use of more … difficulties identified with IAMs, the choice of the risk aversion parameter and the underestimation of damages, are also directly … parameters whose distributions have "fat tails". Uncertainty is accommodated via the state-contingent approach enabling us to …
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uncertainty into Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). Uncertainty is transformed into a risk-premium, damage-correction, region …. This risk premium quantifies what society would be willing to pay to insure against the uncertainty of the damages, and it … highly sensitive to the coefficient of relative risk aversion. Once the climate change damage function incorporates the risk …
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