The Welfare Cost of Ignoring the Beta
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Keywords
Discounting; Investment Theory; Asset Pricing; Carbon Pricing; Arrow-Lind Theorem; WACC Fallacy; Rare Disasters; Capital Budgeting;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
- H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2021-03-22 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-ENE-2021-03-22 (Energy Economics)
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