Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215054 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8052
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Climate change not only impacts production and market consumption, but also the relative scarcity of non-market goods, such as environmental amenities. We study fundamental drivers of the resulting relative price changes, their potential magnitude, and their implications for climate policy in Nordhaus' prominent DICE model, thereby addressing one of its key criticisms. We propose plausible ranges for these relative prices changes based on best available evidence. Our central calibration reveals that accounting for relative prices is equivalent to decreasing pure time preference by 0.6 percentage points and leads to a more than 50 percent higher social cost of carbon.
Subjects: 
climate policy
discounting
non-market goods
social cost of carbon
substitutability
JEL: 
Q01
Q54
H43
D61
D90
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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