Robustness of a simple rule for the social cost of carbon

Economics Letters

Volumn 132, Issue , 2015, Pages 48-55

  Rezai, Armon ^a,c,d   van der Ploeg, Frederick ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Climate damages; Energy transitions; Ramsey growth; Robustness; Social cost of carbon; Stranded fossil fuel assets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929158304     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.04.007     Document Type: Article

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