Time perspective and climate change policy

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Karp, Larry ^a   Tsur, Yacov ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Catastrophic climate change; Hyperbolic discounting; Markov perfect equilibria; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES; DISCOUNT RATES; HYPERBOLIC DISCOUNTING; MARKOV PERFECT EQUILIBRIA; POLICY MAKERS; TIME PERSPECTIVE; TIME UNITS; TIME-SCALES; UNCERTAINTY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

CLIMATE CONTROL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CATASTROPHE THEORY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GREENHOUSE GAS; MARKOV CHAIN; POLICY MAKING; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 79958844073     PISSN: 00950696     EISSN: 10960449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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