Frederick van der Ploeg

This paper investigates just how important intrageneration inequality is for the social cost of carbon, compared to intergenerational inequality and macroeconomic uncertainty. Read more

The authors of this paper discuss qualitative, empirical, modeling, policy, and institutional research and identify priorities for future research. Read more

The authors of this comment respond to a recent argument put forward by Lemoine and Rudik (2017), that it is efficient to delay reducing carbon emissions because there is substantial inertia in the climate system. Mattauch et al. show that there is no such inertia, which means there is no lag between carbon emissions and warming. Read more