Uncertain Outcomes and Climate Change Policy

Focusing on tail effects, I incorporate distributions for temperature change and its economic impact in an analysis of climate change policy. I estimate the fraction of consumption w_(_ ) that society would be willing to sacrifice to ensure that any increase in temperature at a future point is limit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pindyck, Robert S.
Format: Working Paper
Published: MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51679

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