Risk and Return in Environmental Economics

I examine the risk/return tradeoff for environmental investments, and its implications for policy choice. Consider a policy to reduce carbon emissions. To what extent does the value of such a policy depend on the expected future damages from global warming versus uncertainty over those damages, i.e....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pindyck, Robert S.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: MIT CEEPR 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72003