Carbon trading with imperfectly observable emissions

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 151-169

  Godal, Odd ^a   Ermoliev, Yuri ^b   Klaassen, Ger ^b   Obersteiner, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Carbon; Emissions trading; Monitoring; Simulation; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; INVESTMENTS;

EMISSIONS TRADING;

COMMERCE;

CARBON EMISSION; EMISSIONS TRADING; KYOTO PROTOCOL; MONITORING; UNCERTAINTY ROLE;

EID: 0038810177     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023914324084     Document Type: Article

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