How sensitive is Nordhaus to Weitzman? Climate policy in DICE with an alternative damage function
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Climate change; DICE model; Stern discounting;All these keywords.
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- Q2 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation
- Q4 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy
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