Publications
Incorporating climate change and growth into the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction
The economic costs of natural disasters have continued to rise since the early 1980s and are expected to rise further given the challenges of climate change and population … read more »
Discounting under disagreement
NBER Working Paper. A group of agents disagree about the appropriate inter temporal preferences to use when exploiting a common productive resource. read more »
Predicting agricultural impacts of large-scale drought: 2012 and the case for better modeling
The 2012 growing season saw one of the worst droughts in a generation in much of the United States and cast a harsh light on the … read more »
Economy-wide impacts of REDD when there is political influence
National-level strategies for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation(REDD), financed by international transfers, have begun to emerge. A three-sector model is developed to explore the economy-wide … read more »
On welfare frameworks and catastrophic climate risks
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to ‘fat-tailed’ risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009). read more »
Declining discount rates and the Fisher Effect: inflated past, discounted future?
Uncertain, yet persistent, real rates of return to capital underpin one argument for using a declining schedule of social discount rates. Yet persistency is only present … read more »
The role of insurance risk transfer in encouraging climate investment in developing countries
In: Dupuy, P-M., Viñuales, J. E. (eds.) Harnessing foreign investment to promote environmental protection. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 228-250.
Flutversicherung – Wie der Staat und die Versicherer zusammenkommen können
Reference Suminski, S. 2014. Flutversicherung – Wie der Staat und die Versicherer zusammenkommen können, Zeitschrift fuer das Versicherungswesen ZfV 04/2014.
Using micro data to examine causal effects of climate policy
Reference Gennaioli, C., Martin, R., Muuls, M. 2013. Using micro data to examine causal effects of climate policy. In: Handbook on Energy and Climate Change (Roger Fouquet [ed.]), Edwards Elgar … read more »
