Optimal climate policy: Uncertainty versus Monte Carlo

Economics Letters

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 552-558

  Crost, Benjamin ^a   Traeger, Christian P ^b  

^a UC Denver   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; DICE; Integrated assessment; Monte Carlo; Risk aversion; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880343812     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.05.019     Document Type: Article

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