Optimal Learning on Climate Change: Why Climate Skeptics should reduce Emissions
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- van Wijnbergen, Sweder & Willems, Tim, 2015. "Optimal learning on climate change: Why climate skeptics should reduce emissions," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 17-33.
- Sweder van Wijnbergen & Tim Willems, 2013. "Optimal Learning on Climate Change: Why Climate Sceptics Should Reduce Emissions," OxCarre Working Papers 111, Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, University of Oxford.
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Keywords
climate policy; global warming; climate skepticism; active learning; irreversibilities;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
- Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2012-09-03 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2012-09-03 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-PKE-2012-09-03 (Post Keynesian Economics)
- NEP-RES-2012-09-03 (Resource Economics)
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