EU emissions trading: Navigating between Scylla and Charybdis

Climate Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-9

  Michaelowa, Axel ^a   Butzengeiger, Sonja ^a  

^a Hamburg Institute of International Economics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allocation; Emissions trading; Kyoto mechanisms; Public choice

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; EUROPEAN UNION;

SCYLLA;

EID: 22344445531     PISSN: 14693062     EISSN: 17527457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2005.9685536     Document Type: Editorial

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