| Authors |
Xepapadeas, A. and Yannacopoulos, A. |
| Title |
Spatially Structured Deep Uncertainty, Robust Control, and Climate Change Policies |
| Abstract |
In view of the ambiguities and the deep uncertainty associated with climate change, we study the features of climate change policies that account for spatially structured ambiguity. Ambiguity related to the evolution of the damages from climate change is introduced into a coupled economy-climate model with explicit spatial structure due to heat transport across the globe. We seek to answer questions about how spatial robust regulation regarding climate policies can be formulated; what the potential links of this regulation to the weak and strong version of the precautionary principle (PP) are; and how insights about whether it is costly to follow a PP can be obtained. We also study the emergence of hot spots, which are locations where local deep uncertainty may cause robust regulation to break down for the whole spatial domain. |
| Creation Date |
2018-03-27 |
| Keywords |
Climate change, ambiguity, robust control, spatial regulation |
| Classification JEL |
Q54,R11,D81,C61 |
| File |
EAERE.pdf (547318 bytes) |
| File-Function |
First version |
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