High impact, low probability? An empirical analysis of risk in the economics of climate change
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catastrophe; climate change; cost-benefit analysis; discount rate; integrated assessment; risk; uncertainty;All these keywords.
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- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
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