Climate Policy Under Intergenerational Discounting An Application of the Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy Model /

• Main Author: Zaddach, Jonathan Orlando (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: BestMasters
• Subjects: Economic policy.; Economics.; Economic Policy.

In this thesis, Orlando Zaddach applies a discounting scheme derived by Krysiak (2010) in the latest DICE model and presents its implications for optimal climate policy. Furthermore, he carries out an one-factor-at-a-time (OFAT) sensitivity analysis to check the discounting scheme for robustness. It...

Table of Contents:

• DICE-2013R and Other Integrated Assessment Models
• Consumer Sovereignty vs. Intergenerational Equity: An Overview of the Stern-Nordhaus Debate
• Intergenerational Discounting and Overlapping Generations Models
• Intergenerational Discounting in the DICE Model.