Modified Ramsey Discounting for Climate Change
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Keywords
Climate change; social cost of carbon; discount rate; Ramsey rule; equity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2015-04-25 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2015-04-25 (Environmental Economics)
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