Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93437 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4671
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
World income grows fast without verifiable climate-change impacts on the economy. The growth spell can end if climate impacts turn real but this can take decades to learn. We develop a tractable stochastic climate-economy model with a hidden-state impact process to evaluate the contributions of the expanding economy and changing impact beliefs to the social cost of carbon. Taking a dataset of estimates for the social cost as a representation of beliefs, we assess how robust climate policies are to the delays of hard information. The carbon price should rise with income to the next century, even without observed impacts. The carbon price should grow faster than the economy as long as climate warming is not enough for generating impacts that are informative about the true social cost.
Subjects: 
carbon price
learning
climate change
JEL: 
H43
H41
D61
D91
Q54
E21
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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