Christian P. Traeger

University of California, Berkeley

310 Barrows Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720

United States

University of Oslo - Department of Economics (ESOP)

Moltke Moes vei 31

Oslo, 0851

Norway

ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research

Poschinger Str. 5

Munich, 81679

Germany

University of Oslo - Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research

Gaustadalleen 21

N-0317 Oslo

Norway

  • University of California, Berkeley

  • University of Oslo - Department of Economics (ESOP)

  • ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research

  • University of Oslo - Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research

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Analytic Integrated Assessment and Uncertainty

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Analytic Integrated Assessment and Uncertainty

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 02 Oct 2015
Christian P. Traeger
University of California, Berkeley
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climate change, integrated assessment, uncertainty, learning, risk aversion, recursive utility

Closed-Form Integrated Assessment and Uncertainty

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5464
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 14 Aug 2015
Christian P. Traeger
University of California, Berkeley
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climate change, integrated assessment, uncertainty, learning, risk aversion, recursive utility, social cost of carbon, carbon tax

ACE – Analytic Climate Economy (with Temperature and Uncertainty)

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 09 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2019
Christian P. Traeger
University of California, Berkeley
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climate change, integrated assessment, uncertainty, learning, risk aversion, recursive utility, social cost of carbon, carbon tax, carbon cycle, climate sensitivity, stochastic volatility, autoregressive gamma

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Once Upon a Time Preference - How Rationality and Risk Aversion Change the Rationale for Discounting

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3793
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 26 Apr 2012
Christian P. Traeger
University of California, Berkeley
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time preference, discounting, uncertainty, expected utility, recursive utility, risk aversion, intertemporal substitutability, stationarity, certainty additivity, temporal lotteries, intertemporal risk aversion, temporal resolution of risk, discount rate

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Why Uncertainty Matters - Discounting Under Intertemporal Risk Aversion and Ambiguity

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3727
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 13 Feb 2012
Christian P. Traeger
University of California, Berkeley
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ambiguity, climate change, cost benefit analysis, discounting, intertemporal substitutability, risk aversion, uncertainty

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Discounting Under Uncertainty: Disentangling the Weitzman and the Gollier Effect

CUDARE Working Paper No. 1121
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 27 May 2013
Christian P. Traeger
University of California, Berkeley
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benefit cost analysis, discounting, term structure, uncertainty, Weitzman-Gollier puzzle

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Trading Off Generations: Infinitely-Lived Agent Versus OLG

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Trading Off Generations: Infinitely-Lived Agent Versus OLG

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 26 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2011
Maik T. Schneider, Christian P. Traeger and Ralph Winkler
University of Bath, University of California, Berkeley and University of Bern - Department of Economics
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climate change, discounting, infinitely-lived agents, intergenerational equity, overlapping generations, time preference

Trading Off Generations: Infinitely Lived Agent Versus OLG

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3743
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Feb 2012
Maik T. Schneider, Christian P. Traeger and Ralph Winkler
University of Bath, University of California, Berkeley and University of Bern - Department of Economics
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climate change, discounting, infinitely lived agents, intergenerational equity, overlapping generations, time preference

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Subjective Risk, Confidence, and Ambiguity

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 May 2013
Christian P. Traeger
University of California, Berkeley
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ambiguity, confidence, subjective beliefs, expected utility, intertemporal substitutability, intertemporal risk aversion, recursive utility, uncertainty, climate change, behavior

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Risk and Aversion in Assessing Climate Policy

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 27 May 2013
Benjamin Crost and Christian P. Traeger
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of California, Berkeley
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climate change policy, damages, uncertainty, integrated assessment, risk aversion

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Ambiguous Tipping Points

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Oct 2015
Derek Lemoine and Christian P. Traeger
University of Arizona - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley
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tipping point, ambiguity, Knightian uncertainty, threshold, regime shift, climate change, hazard, integrated assessment, dynamic programming, social cost of carbon, carbon tax

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A 4-Stated Dice: Quantitatively Addressing Uncertainty Effects in Climate Change

CUDARE Working Papers, No. 1130
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 27 May 2013 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2013
Christian P. Traeger
University of California, Berkeley
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climate change, uncertainty, integrated assessment, DICE, dynamic programming, risk aversion, intertemporal substitution, recursive utility

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Discounting and Confidence

CUDARE Working Papers, No. 1117R
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 May 2013
Christian P. Traeger
University of California, Berkeley
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uncertainty, discounting, climate change, ambiguity, confidence, subjective beliefs, prudence, pessimism, expected utility, intertemporal substitutability, intertemporal risk aversion

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Recalculating the Social Cost of Carbon

FEEM Working Paper No. 19.2018
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 29 May 2018
Soheil Shayegh, Valentina Bosetti, Simon Dietz, Johannes Emmerling, Christoph Hambel, Svenn Jensen, Holger Kraft, Massimo Tavoni, Christian P. Traeger and Rick van der Ploeg
Bocconi University, Bocconi University, London School of Economics - Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Department of Geography and Environment, CMCC - Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici - European Institute onEconomy and the Environment (EIEE), Goethe University Frankfurt, Oslo Metropolitan University, Goethe University Frankfurt, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), University of California, Berkeley and University of Oxford
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Integrated Assessment Models, Climate Policy, Carbon, Uncertainty

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Trading Off Generations: Equity, Discounting, and Climate Change

European Economic Review, 56: 1621–1644, 2012
Posted: 31 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2019
Maik T. Schneider, Christian P. Traeger and Ralph Winkler
University of Bath, University of California, Berkeley and University of Bern - Department of Economics
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climate change, discounting, infinitely lived agents, intergenerational equity, overlapping generations, time preference

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The Social Discount Rate Under Intertemporal Risk Aversion and Ambiguity

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 28 Jul 2011
Christian P. Traeger
University of California, Berkeley
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ambiguity, climate change, cost benefit analysis, discounting, intertemporal substitutability, risk aversion, uncertainty

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Tipping Points and Ambiguity in the Economics of Climate Change

NBER Working Paper No. w18230
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Jul 2012
Derek Lemoine and Christian P. Traeger
University of Arizona - Department of Economics and University of California, Berkeley
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What's the Option?

Posted: 28 May 2013
Christian P. Traeger
University of California, Berkeley

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irreversibility, option, quasi-option value, benefit cost analysis, uncertainty

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Sustainability, Limited Substitutability, and Non-Constant Social Discount Rates

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 62, No. 2, 2011
Posted: 27 May 2013
Christian P. Traeger
University of California, Berkeley

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Environmental discount rate, Hyperbolic, Limited substitutability, Non-constant discounting, Project evaluation, Social discount factor, Social discount rate

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Recent Developments in the Intertemporal Modeling of Uncertainty

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Recent Developments in the Intertemporal Modeling of Uncertainty

Annual Review of Resource Economics, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 261-286, 2009
Posted: 04 Jun 2010
Christian P. Traeger
University of California, Berkeley

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Recent Developments in the Intertemporal Modeling of Uncertainty

Annual Review of Resource Economics, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 261-286, 2009
Posted: 16 Sep 2011
Christian P. Traeger
University of California, Berkeley

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