The economics of tail events with an application to climate change

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 240-257

  Nordhaus, William D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 80051957030     PISSN: 17506816     EISSN: 17506824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reep/rer004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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