Policy adoption rules and global warming: Theoretical and empirical considerations

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 635-646

  Xepapadeas, Anastasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Damages; Global warming; Irreversibility; Optimal stopping; Timing; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; OPTIMIZATION; PUBLIC POLICY;

OPTIMAL POLICY FUNCTIONS;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL WARMING; POLICY STRATEGY;

EID: 0032053055     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008299430205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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