The cost-efficiency carbon pricing puzzle
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- Gollier, Christian, 2021. "The cost-efficiency carbon pricing puzzle," CEPR Discussion Papers 15919, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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Keywords
Carbon budget; risk-adjusted Hotelling’s rule; climate finance; climate beta;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2018-10-08 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2018-10-08 (Environmental Economics)
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