Risk and Return in Environmental Economics

I examine risk/return trade-offs for environmental investments and their implications for policy choice. Consider a policy to reduce carbon emissions. To what extent should the policy objective be a reduction in the expected temperature increase versus a reduction in risk? Using a simple model of a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pindyck, Robert S.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99116
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8296-9875