Uncertainty, learning and ambiguity in economic models on climate policy: Some classical results and new directions

Climatic Change

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 7-21

  Lange, Andreas ^a   Treich, Nicolas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EDUCATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PUBLIC POLICY; SEMANTICS; STANDARDS;

BUSINESS MEDIA; CLIMATE POLICIES; DYNAMIC CONTEXTS; ECONOMIC MODELING; EMISSIONS (ASPHALT); EXPECTED UTILITY; EXPECTED UTILITY MODEL; GENERAL (CO); NEGATIVE EFFECTS; NON-EXPECTED UTILITY; SPRINGER (CO);

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; LEARNING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 46649102632     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-008-9401-5     Document Type: Article

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