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A Forward Looking Ricardian Approach: Do Land Markets Capitalize Climate Change Forecasts? / Christopher Severen, Christopher Costello, Olivier Deschenes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Severen, Christopher.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22413.
- NBER working paper series no. w22413
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Forward Looking Ricardian Approach
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.
- Summary:
- The hedonic pricing method is one of the fundamental approaches used to estimate the economic value of attributes that affect the market price of an asset. In environmental economics, such methods are routinely used to derive the economic valuation of environmental attributes such as air pollution and water quality. For example, the Ricardian approach is based on a hedonic regression of land values on historical climate variables. Forecasts of future climate can then be employed to estimate the future costs of climate change. This extensively-applied approach contains an important implicit assumption that current land markets ignore current climate forecasts. While this assumption was defensible decades ago (when this literature first emerged), it is reasonable to hypothesize that information on climate change is so pervasive today that markets may already price in expectations of future climate change. We show how to account for this with a straightforward empirical correction (called the Forward-Looking Ricardian Approach) that can be implemented with readily available data. We apply this empirically to agricultural land markets in the United States and find evidence that these markets already are accounting for climate change forecasts. Failing to account for this would lead a researcher to understate climate change damages by 36% to 66%.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2016.
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