The Zero Discounting and Maximin Optimal Paths in a Simple Model of Global Warming

Antoine d'Autume, John Hartwick and Katheline Schubert

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Abstract: Following Stollery (1998), we extend the Solow-- Dasgupta--Heal model to analyze the effects of global warming The rise of temperature is caused by the use of fossil resources so that the temperature level can be linked to the remaining stock of these resources. The rise of temperature affects both productivity and utility. We characterize optimal solutions for the maximin and zero-discounting cases and present closed form solutions for the case where the production and utility functions are Cobb-Douglas, and the temperature level is an exponential function of the remaining stock of resources. We show that a greater weight of temperature in intratemporal preferences or a larger intertemporal elasticity of substitution both lead to postpone resource use.

Keywords: Global warming; Zero discounting; maximin (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-03
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Published in Mathematical Social Sciences, 2010, 59 (2), pp.193-207. ⟨10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2009.10.002⟩

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Working Paper: The Zero discounting and maximin optimal paths in a simple model of global warming (2009)
Working Paper: The Zero discounting and maximin optimal paths in a simple model of global warming (2009)
Working Paper: The zero discounting and maximin optimal paths in a simple model of global warming (2009)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2009.10.002

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