Climate Change: Behavioral Responses from Extreme Events and Delayed Damages
Quaderni - Working Paper DSE N° 2002
46 Pages Posted: 2 May 2017
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Climate Change: Behavioral Responses from Extreme Events and Delayed Damages
Climate Change: Behavioral Responses from Extreme Events and Delayed Damages
Date Written: April 28, 2017
Abstract
Understanding how to sustain cooperation in the climate change global dilemma is crucial to mitigate its harmful consequences. Damages from climate change typically occurs after long delays and can take the form of more frequent realizations of extreme and random events. These features generate a decoupling between emissions and their damages, which we study through a laboratory experiment. We find that some decision-makers respond to global emissions, as expected, while others respond to realized damages also when emissions are observable. On balance, the presence of delayed/stochastic consequences did not impair cooperation. However, we observed a worrisome increasing trend of emissions when damages hit with delay.
Keywords: Social dilemma, Experiments, Greenhouse gas, Pollution
JEL Classification: C70, C90, D03, Q54
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