Climate Policies under Climate Model Uncertainty: Max-Min and Min-Max Regret
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- Rezai, Armon & van der Ploeg, Frederick, 2017. "Climate policies under climate model uncertainty: Max-min and min-max regret," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 68(S1), pages 4-16.
- Rick Van der Ploeg & Armon Rezai, 2017. "Climate Policies Under Climate Model Uncertainty: Max-Min and Min-Max Regret," OxCarre Working Papers 187, Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, University of Oxford.
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Keywords
carbon price; renewable energy subsidy; temperature modules; climate model uncertainty; climate sceptics; max-min; max-max; min-max regret;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
- Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects
- 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-2017-11-05 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2017-11-05 (Environmental Economics)
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