The Social Cost of Carbon: Trends, Outliers and Catastrophes

Richard Tol

No 2007-44, Economics Discussion Papers from 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.

Keywords: Climate change; social cost of carbon (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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Journal Article: The Social Cost of Carbon: Trends, Outliers and Catastrophes (2008)
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