Climate Economics: A Meta-Review and Some Suggestions for Future Research

By Geoffrey M. Heal. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2008

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What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature (2014, background): “While empirical evidence potentially provides some guidance for writing down the social welfare function, including estimates of market discount rates and the diminishing marginal utility of consumption, some have argued that the choice of the discount rate and welfare weights is a normative questio”
On Welfare Frameworks and Catastrophic Climate Risks (2013, unknown): “Such concerns have been raised before [31]—the dismal theorem throws them into the spotlight.”
Scientific Ambiguity and Climate Policy (2013, methodology): “Hansen and Sargent (2007) have applied similar techniques, later axiomatized by Maccheroni et al. (2006), in macroeconomics in order to derive policies that are robust to model misspecification.”
Developing a Social Cost of Carbon for US Regulatory Analysis: A Methodology and Interpretation (2013, background): “Portney and Weyant (1999) and Heal (2009) also discuss the challenges of intergenerational discounting.”