The Social Cost of Carbon with Intragenerational Inequality and Economic Uncertainty
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- van der Ploeg, Frederick & Emmerling, Johannes & Groom, Ben, 2023. "The social cost of carbon with intragenerational inequality and economic uncertainty," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 117901, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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Keywords
social discount rate; social cost of carbon; intra- and intergenerational inequality aversion; risk aversion; inequality; growth; uncertainty;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2023-01-23 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2023-01-23 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-UPT-2023-01-23 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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