The choice of discount rate for climate change policy evaluation

Climate Change Economics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Goulder, Lawrence H ^a   Williams, Roberton C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; discount rate; Discounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904735581     PISSN: 20100078     EISSN: 20100086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S2010007812500248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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