Discounting and the representative median agent

Economics Letters

Volumn 161, Issue , 2017, Pages 78-81

  Emmerling, Johannes ^a   Groom, Ben ^b   Wettingfeld, Tanja ^c  

^a Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Centro Euro Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)   (Italy)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UK Health Alliance on Climate Change   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Income inequality; Inequality aversion; Social discount rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 85033729649     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.09.031     Document Type: Article

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