Climate policy under fat-tailed risk: An application of FUND

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 223-237

  Anthoff, David ^a   Tol, Richard S J ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Decision making under uncertainty; Deep uncertainty; Dismal Theorem; Fat tailed risk; Integrated assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906076872     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-013-1343-2     Document Type: Article

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