Untapped fossil fuel and the green paradox: a classroom calibration of the optimal carbon tax

A classroom model of global warming, fossil fuel depletion and the optimal carbon tax is formulated and calibrated. It features iso-elastic fossil fuel demand, stock-dependent fossil fuel extraction costs, an exogenous interest rate and no decay of the atmospheric stock of carbon. The optimal carbon...

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Huvudupphovsman: Van der Ploeg, R
Materialtyp: Working paper
Publicerad: University of Oxford 2013