Pollution control by options trading

Economics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 353-358

  Unold, Wolfram ^a   Requate, Till ^b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental policy; H3; Imperfect information; Options trading; Q2; Tradeable permits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035604150     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(01)00512-2     Document Type: Article

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