by Robert S. Pindyck
- Any economic analysis of climate change policy requires some model that describes the impact of warming on future GDP and consumption. Most integrated assessment models (IAMs) relate temperature to the level of real GDP and consumption, but there are theoretical and empirical reasons to expect temperature to affect the growth rate rather than level of GDP. Does this distinction matter in terms of implications for policy? And how does the answer depend on the nature and extent of uncertainty over future temperature change and its impact?
Robert S. Pindyck (2010). "Modeling the Impact of Warming in Climate Change Economics." NBER Working Paper No. 15692, Jan 2010.
