Seminar 217, Risk Management: "General Equilibrium and Climate Change" (Online)

Seminar 217, Risk Management: "General Equilibrium and Climate Change" (Online)

Risk Seminar
Sep 14, 2021, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Online via Zoom | Happening As Scheduled
Robert Anderson, UC Berkeley (Speaker - Featured)

ABSTRACT: General Equilibrium (GE) models are the most natural economic models for studying policies to mitigate human-induced climate change. In particular, they provide a setting in which we can analyze the effects on income distribution of climate mitigation policies such as carbon taxes or cap-and-trade, and develop policies to offset the income distribution effects. Most economic models of...