Working paper by Antony Millner, Geoffrey Heal on 1 Apr 2013
NBER Working Paper. A group of agents disagree about the appropriate inter temporal preferences to use when exploiting a common productive resource. read more »
Working paper by Ben Groom, Ekaterini Panopoulou, Theologos Pantelidis on 29 Mar 2013
Uncertain, yet persistent, real rates of return to capital underpin one argument for using a declining schedule of social discount rates. Yet persistency is only present … read more »
Research article by Simon Dietz on 20 May 2012
Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which … read more »
Working paper by Michael Spackman on 1 Nov 2011
The conceptual basis and numerical quantification of the time discount rate (or rates) to use for the comparison of policies or projects from a national perspective … read more »
Working paper by on 1 Nov 2011
The conceptual basis and numerical quantification of the time discount rate (or rates) to use for public sector analysis have been debated for over half a … read more »
Working paper by Simon Dietz, Geir B. Asheim on 1 Mar 2011
Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the … read more »
Research article by Cameron Hepburn on 18 Jun 2010
This paper reviews some recent research in “behavioural economics” with an application to environmental issues. Empirical results from behavioural economics provide a reminder that human behaviour is context-dependent, implying … read more »
