Climate feedback mechanisms that have the potential to intensify global warming have been omitted almost completely in the integrated assessment of climate change and the economy so far. With the present paper we try to narrow this gap in literature. We discuss different types of feedback...

A growing body of literature from the natural and the social sciences indicates that the rate of temperature increase is another key driver of total climate damages, next to the absolute increase in temperature compared to the pre-industrial level. Nonetheless, the damage functions employed in...

Der Konflikt zwischen Ökologie und Ökonomie wird dadurch unnötig verschärft, daß wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Prinzipien und Erkenntnisse bei der Gestaltung einer ökonomisch rationalen Umweltpolitik nur unzureichend berücksichtigt werden. Die Ziele der Umweltpolitik werden von der Politik...

This paper investigates the economic implications of a comprehensive approach to greenhouse policies that strives to stabilise the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases at an ecologicaliy determined threshold level. In a theoretical optimisation model conditions for an efficient...