
The use of a constant discount rate to study long-lived environmental problems such as global warming has two disadvantages: The prescribed policy is sensitive to the discount rate, and with moderate discount rates, large future damages have almost no effect on current decisions. Time-consistent quasi-hyperbolic discounting alleviates both of these modeling problems, and is a plausible description of how people think about the future. We analyze the time-consistent Markov Perfect equilibrium in a general model with a stock pollutant. The solution to the linear-quadratic specialization illustrates the role of hyperbolic discounting in a model of global warming.
330, time consistency, air pollution global warming linear models, stock pollutant, hyperbolic discounting, global warming, time consistency, stock pollutant, global warming, hyperbolic discounting
330, time consistency, air pollution global warming linear models, stock pollutant, hyperbolic discounting, global warming, time consistency, stock pollutant, global warming, hyperbolic discounting
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