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Cumulative emissions, unburnable fossil fuel, and the optimal carbon tax
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A stylised analytical framework is used to show how the global carbon tax and the amount of untapped fossil fuel can be calculated from a simple rule given estimates of society's rate of time impatience and intergenerational inequality aversion, the extraction cost technology, the rate of technical progress in renewable energy and the future trend rate of economic growth. The predictions of the simple framework are tested in a calibrated numerical and more complex version of the integrated as...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.10.016
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- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Technological Forecasting and Social Change Journal website
- Volume:
- 116
- Issue:
- C
- Pages:
- 216-222
- Publication date:
- 2016-11-02
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-10-19
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800891
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- Copyright holder:
- Van der Ploeg and Rezai
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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