Uncertainty and Climate Change: The IPCC approach vs Decision Theory
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Keywords
Climate change; IPCC; risk; uncertainty; misspecification; ambiguity aversion;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2023-11-06 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2023-11-06 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-HME-2023-11-06 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-UPT-2023-11-06 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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