Abstract:Integrated assessment models lack a microeconomic foundation in modelling environmental damages to the economy. To overcome this, damage coe¢ cients are incorporated in standard microeconomic models. Firms and consumers take both damages and prices as given. Demand, supply, pro…t and expenditure functions under damage coe¢ cients are derived that allow easy implementation in applied economic models through appropriate price distortions related to such coe¢ cients. For the consumer, Slutsky's equations are deri… Show more
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