The social cost of carbon with economic and climate risks

Y Cai, TS Lontzek - Journal of Political Economy, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Uncertainty about future economic and climate conditions substantially affects the choice of
policies for managing interactions between the climate and the economy. We develop a …

Stochastic integrated assessment of climate tipping points indicates the need for strict climate policy

TS Lontzek, Y Cai, KL Judd, TM Lenton - Nature Climate Change, 2015 - nature.com
Perhaps the most 'dangerous' aspect of future climate change is the possibility that human
activities will push parts of the climate system past tipping points, leading to irreversible …

Assessment and valuation of forest ecosystem services: state of the science review

S Binder, RG Haight, S Polasky… - Gen. Tech. Rep …, 2017 - research.fs.usda.gov
This review focuses on the assessment and economic valuation of ecosystem services from
forest ecosystems—that is, our ability to predict changes in the quantity and value of …

Computational methods in environmental and resource economics

Y Cai - Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Computational methods are required to solve problems without closed-form solutions in
environmental and resource economics. Efficiency, stability, and accuracy are key elements …

The climate in climate economics

D Folini, A Friedl, F Kübler… - Review of Economic …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
To analyse climate change mitigation strategies, economists rely on simplified climate
models—so-called climate emulators—that provide a realistic quantitative link between CO …

A 4-stated DICE: Quantitatively addressing uncertainty effects in climate change

CP Traeger - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2014 - Springer
We introduce a version of the DICE-2007 model designed for uncertainty analysis. DICE is a
wide-spread deterministic integrated assessment model of climate change. Climate change …

The social cost of stochastic and irreversible climate change

Y Cai, KL Judd, TS Lontzek - 2013 - nber.org
There is great uncertainty about the impact of anthropogenic carbon on future economic
wellbeing. We use DSICE, a DSGE extension of the DICE2007 model of William Nordhaus …

Making carbon taxation a generational win win

L Kotlikoff, F Kubler, A Polbin, J Sachs… - International …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon taxation is mostly studied in social planner or infinitely lived‐agent models, which
obscure carbon taxation's potential to produce a generational win win. This article's large …

International transmission of the business cycle and environmental policy

B Annicchiarico, F Diluiso - Resource and Energy Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model of
environmental policy for a two-country economy and studies the international transmission …

Optimal carbon abatement in a stochastic equilibrium model with climate change

C Hambel, H Kraft, E Schwartz - European Economic Review, 2021 - Elsevier
There is much discussion in the literature about the resources society should commit to
ameliorate the effects of climate change. The optimal greenhouse gas abatement strategy …