Intergenerational inequality aversion, growth and the role of damages: Occam's rule for the global carbon tax

We derive a simple rule for a nearly optimal carbon tax that can be implemented and tested in a decentralized market economy. Our simple rule depends on the effect of the pure rate of time preference, growth and intergenerational inequality aversion and basic parameters of the carbon cycle, but also...

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Hlavní autoři: Van der Ploeg, R, Rezai, A
Médium: Working paper
Vydáno: University of Oxford 2014