《Planetary boundaries of consumption growth: Declining social discount
rates》
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作者:
Victor E. Gluzberg and Yuri A. Katz
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最新提交年份:
2018
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英文摘要:
We introduce the logistic model of consumption growth, which captures a negative feedback loop preventing an unlimited growth of consumption due to finite biophysical resources of our planet. This simple dynamic model allows for derivation of the expression describing the declining long-term tail of a social discount curve. The latter plays a critical role in, e.g., climate finance with benefits on current investments deferred to centuries from now. The growth rate of consumption is irregularly evolving in time, which makes estimation of an expected term-structure of consumption growth and associated social discount rates a challenging task. Nonetheless, observations show that the problem at hand is perturbative with the small parameter being the product of an average strength of fluctuations in the growth rate and its autocorrelation time. This fact permits utilization of the cumulant expansion method to derive remarkably simple expressions for the term-structure of expected consumption growth and associated discount rates in the bounded economy. Comparison with empirical data shows that the dynamic effect related to the planetary resource constrains could become a dominant mechanism responsible for a declining long-term tail of a social discount curve at the time horizon estimated here as about100 years from now (the lower boundary). The derived results can help to shape a more realistic long-term social discounting policy. Furthermore, with the obvious redefinition of the key parameters of the model, obtained results are directly applicable for description of expected long-term population growth in stochastic environments.
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中文摘要:
我们引入了消费增长的逻辑模型,该模型捕获了一个负反馈回路,阻止了由于我们星球有限的生物物理资源而导致的消费无限增长。这个简单的动态模型允许推导描述社会贴现曲线长期尾部下降的表达式。后者在气候金融方面发挥着关键作用,目前的投资收益推迟到几个世纪以后。消费增长率在时间上是不规则变化的,这使得估计消费增长的预期期限结构和相关的社会贴现率成为一项具有挑战性的任务。然而,观察结果表明,目前的问题是微扰的,小参数是增长率波动平均强度及其自相关时间的乘积。这一事实允许利用累积量展开法推导出有限经济中预期消费增长的期限结构和相关贴现率的非常简单的表达式。与经验数据的比较表明,与行星资源约束相关的动态效应可能成为导致社会贴现曲线在此处估计的大约100年后(下边界)的时间范围内长期尾部下降的主要机制。得出的结果有助于制定更现实的长期社会贴现政策。此外,随着模型关键参数的明显重新定义,所得结果直接适用于描述随机环境中的预期长期人口增长。
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分类信息:
一级分类:Quantitative Finance 数量金融学
二级分类:General Finance 一般财务
分类描述:Development of general quantitative methodologies with applications in finance
通用定量方法的发展及其在金融中的应用
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一级分类:Quantitative Finance 数量金融学
二级分类:Mathematical Finance 数学金融学
分类描述:Mathematical and analytical methods of finance, including stochastic, probabilistic and functional analysis, algebraic, geometric and other methods
金融的数学和分析方法,包括随机、概率和泛函分析、代数、几何和其他方法
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