Numerical analysis of non-constant pure rate of time preference: A model of climate policy

Tomoki Fujii () and Larry S. Karp

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2008, vol. 56, issue 1, pages 83-101

Abstract: When current decisions affect welfare in the far-distant future, as with climate change, the use of a declining pure rate of time preference (PRTP) provides potentially important modeling flexibility. The difficulty of analyzing models with non-constant PRTP limits their application. We describe and provide software (available online) to implement an algorithm to numerically obtain a Markov perfect equilibrium for an optimal control problem with non-constant PRTP. We apply this software to a simplified version of the numerical climate change model used in the Stern Review. For our calibration, the policy recommendations are less sensitive to the PRTP than widely believed.

Date: 2008
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