Watch your step: optimal policy in a tipping climate

D Lemoine, C Traeger - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014 - aeaweb.org
We investigate the optimal policy response to the possibility of abrupt, irreversible shifts in
system dynamics. The welfare cost of a tipping point emerges from the policymaker's …

Risk of multiple interacting tipping points should encourage rapid CO2 emission reduction

Y Cai, TM Lenton, TS Lontzek - Nature Climate Change, 2016 - nature.com
Evidence suggests that several elements of the climate system could be tipped into a
different state by global warming, causing irreversible economic damages. To address their …

Welfare, wealth, and sustainability

EG Irwin, S Gopalakrishnan… - Annual Review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Growing concerns over climate change and the potential for large damages due to nonlinear
processes underscore the need for a meaningful sustainability assessment of an economy …

Pricing climate change risks: CAPM with rare disasters and stochastic probabilities

C Karydas, A Xepapadeas - CER-ETH Working Paper Series …, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
There are concerns that climate-related physical and political risks are not yet properly
reflected in asset prices. To address these concerns, we develop a dynamic asset pricing …

Climate tipping points and solar geoengineering

G Heutel, J Moreno-Cruz, S Shayegh - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2016 - Elsevier
We study optimal climate policy in the presence of climate tipping points and solar
geoengineering. Solar geoengineering reduces temperatures without reducing greenhouse …

Tipping points and ambiguity in the economics of climate change

DM Lemoine, CP Traeger - 2012 - nber.org
We model welfare-maximizing policy in an infinite-horizon setting when the probability of a
tipping point, the welfare change due to a tipping point, and knowledge about a tipping …

Climate change financial risks: pricing and portfolio allocation

C Karydas, A Xepapadeas - 2019 - econstor.eu
There are concerns that climate-related physical and political risks are not yet properly
reflected in asset prices. To address these concerns, we develop a dynamic asset pricing …

Coupled economic-ecological systems with slow and fast dynamics—modelling and analysis method

AS Crépin, J Norberg, KG Mäler - Ecological Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
The purpose of this article is to contribute to the exploration of non-convex dynamics in
coupled human-nature systems. We study welfare issues associated with the management …

The economy, the biosphere and planetary boundaries: Towards biosphere economics

AS Crépin, C Folke - International Review of Environmental …, 2015 - nowpublishers.com
Nine planetary boundaries have been proposed, capturing essential biophysical processes
that sustain the Earth System and its biosphere in an accommodating state for humanity …

Wealth, welfare and sustainability

EG Irwin, S Gopalakrishnan… - Annual Review of …, 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
Growing concerns over climate change and the potential for large damages due to non-
linear processes underscore the need for meaningful sustainability assessment of an …