The Ramsey Discounting Formula for a Hidden-State Stochastic Growth Process
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- Weitzman, Martin L., 2012. "The Ramsey Discounting Formula for a Hidden-State Stochastic Growth Process," Scholarly Articles 11204670, Harvard University Department of Economics.
- Martin L. Weitzman, 2012. "The Ramsey Discounting Formula for a Hidden-State Stochastic Growth Process," NBER Working Papers 18157, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
Discounting; Climate change; Long term; Hidden state;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
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