Working paper by Simon Dietz, Frank Venmans on 5 Apr 2016
It has recently been shown that, when discounting future improvements in the environment, relative prices matter. However, we argue relative prices are not the whole story. Not only is the … read more »
Working paper by Ben Groom, Mark C. Freeman, Frikk Nesje, Moritz Drupp on 5 Jun 2015
This working paper finds that current policy guidance concerning social discounting and the evaluation of long-term public projects needs to be updated. read more »
Research article by Antony Millner on 11 Mar 2014
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. Disagreements about the value of the utility discount rate—the rate at which our concern for the welfare of future people declines with their distance from us in time—are at the heart of the debate about the appropriate intensity of climate policy. read more »
