Emissions trading and transaction costs: Analyzing the flaws in the discussion

Ecological Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 293-304

  Woerdman, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clean development mechanism (CDM); Climate change; International emissions trading (IET); Joint implementation (JI); Kyoto protocol; Transaction costs

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; TRANSACTION COST;

EID: 0034863526     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8009(01)00169-0     Document Type: Article

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