Tail-Hedge Discounting and the Social Cost of Carbon

Tail-Hedge Discounting and the Social Cost of Carbon

The choice of an overall discount rate for climate change investments depends critically on how di¤erent components of investment payo¤s are discounted at di¤ering rates re‡ecting their underlying risk characteristics. Such underlying rates can vary enormously, from 1% for idiosyncratic diversi…able risk to 7% for systematic nondiversi…able risk. Which risk-adjusted rate is chosen can have a hu...

investigation of the electronic properties of carbon and iii-v nanotubes

boron nitride semiconducting zigzag swcnt, $b_{cb}$$n_{cn}$$c_{1-cb-cn}$, as a potential candidate for making nanoelectronic devices was examined. in contrast to the previous dft calculations, wherein just one boron and nitrogen doping configuration have been considered, here for the average over all possible configurations, density of states (dos) was calculated in terms of boron and nitrogen ...

Hedging with Trees: Tail-Hedge Discounting of Long-Term Forestry Returns

The social cost of carbon

The social cost of carbon may be the most important number you’ve never heard of. U.S. climate legislation may or may not make it through Congress this year, but in the meantime, the Environmental Protection Agency is moving ahead, authorized by the Supreme Court to limit greenhouse gas emissions. The Department of Energy is setting energy efficiency standards for residential appliances and com...

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...