Tradable Environmental Pollution Credits: A New Financial Asset

Review of Accounting and Finance

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 69-88

  Kosobud, Richard F ^a   Stokes, Houston H ^a   Tallarico, Carol D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Allotment Trading Unit; Cap and Trade Market; Disclosure Issues; Illinois EPA; Pricing of Environmental Financial Asset; Tradable permits; Volatile Organic Compounds

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242716597     PISSN: 14757702     EISSN: 17587700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/eb026997     Document Type: Review

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