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-form expressions of welfare loss from shocks and epistemological uncertainty identify the interaction of (intertemporal) risk attitude …
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Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to "fat-tailed" risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009b). Such risks are suggested to be an inevitable consequence of scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased...
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The paper clarifies the link between changes in risk aversion and the effect on the consumption discount rate. In a … rate to a change in risk aversion depends on some fundamental properties of the considered uncertainties. The application … of this general result to specific forms of uncertainty extends existing results to more general forms of risk and yields …
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