European environmental taxes and charges: Recent experience, issues and trends

Ecological Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-62

  Ekins, Paul ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Distributional effects; Environmental tax; Negative effects; Systematic shift

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL TAX;

EUROPE;

EID: 0033212773     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8009(99)00051-8     Document Type: Short Survey

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