Trading off generations: Equity, discounting, and climate change

European Economic Review

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1621-1644

  Schneider, Maik T ^a   Traeger, Christian P ^b   Winkler, Ralph ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Discounting; Infinitely lived agents; Intergenerational equity; Overlapping generations; Time preference

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EQUITY; MARKET CONDITIONS; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 84867130219     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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