Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/17967 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2007-44
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
211 estimates of the social cost of carbon are included in a meta-analysis. The results confirm that a lower discount rate implies a higher estimate; and that higher estimates are found in the gray literature. It is also found that there is a downward trend in the economic impact estimates of the climate; that the Stern Review?s estimates of the social cost of carbon is an outlier; and that the right tail of the distribution is fat. There is a fair chance that the annual climate liability exceeds the annual income of many people.
Subjects: 
Climate change
social cost of carbon
JEL: 
Q54
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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