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title = "Climate Change Uncertainty Spillover in the Macroeconomy",
abstract = "The design and conduct of climate change policy necessarily confronts uncertainty along multiple fronts. We explore the consequences of ambiguity over various sources and configurations of models that affect how economic opportunities could be damaged in the future.We appeal to decision theory under risk, model ambiguity, and misspecification concerns to provide an economically motivated approach to uncertainty quantification. We show how this approach reduces the many facets of uncertainty into a lowdimensional characterization that depends on the uncertainty aversion of a decision maker or fictitious social planner. In our computations, we take inventory of three alternative channels of uncertainty and provide a novel way to assess them. These include (i) carbon dynamics that capture how carbon emissions affect atmospheric carbon in future time periods, (ii) temperature dynamics that depict how atmospheric carbon alters temperature in future time periods, and (iii) damage functions that quantify how temperature changes diminish economic opportunities. We appeal to geoscientific modeling to quantify the first two channels. We show how these uncertainty sources interact for a social planner looking to design a prudent approach to the social pricing of carbon emissions.",
author = "Michael Barnett and William Brock and Hansen, {Lars Peter}",
note = "Funding Information: Author email address: Hansen (lhansen@uchicago.edu). An online notebook, which includes supplemental results and the code used to derive our model solutions, is available at https://climateuncertaintyspillover.readthedocs.io/en/latest. We thank Shirui Chen, Han Xu, and Jiaming Wang for the computational support on this research. Zhenhuan Xie, Samuel Zhao, and especially Diana Petrova provided valuable help in preparing this manuscript. We benefited from valuable feedback from Fernando Alvarez, Marty Eichen-baum, Michael Greenstone, Kevin Murphy, Tom Sargent, and Chris Sims during helpful conversations while preparing this manuscript. Finally, Per Krusell, Ishan Nath, and Mar Reguant provided thoughtful discussions of earlier versions of the research that helped us in subsequent revisions of this manuscript. Financial support for this project was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (grant G-2018-11113). For acknowledgments, sources of research support, and disclosure of the authors{\textquoteright} material financial relationships, if any, please see https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/nber-macroeconomics-annual-2021 -volume-36/climate-change-uncertainty-spillover-macroeconomy. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, University of Chicago Press. All rights reserved.",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1086/718668",
language = "English (US)",
series = "NBER Macroeconomics Annual",
publisher = "University of Chicago Press",
number = "1",
pages = "253--320",
booktitle = "NBER Macroeconomics Annual",
address = "United States",
edition = "1",
}