The welfare cost of ignoring the beta
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Discounting; Investment theory; Asset pricing; Carbon pricing; Arrow-lind theorem; Wacc fallacy; Rare disasters; Capital budgeting;All these keywords.
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- 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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