On the fair division of greenhouse gas abatement cost

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 260-276

  Böhringer, Christoph ^a,b   Helm, Carsten ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CGE models; Climate change; Fair division; Welfare bounds

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST REDUCTION; GREENHOUSE GASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EMISSION ENTITLEMENTS; WALRASIAN SOLUTION; WELFARE BOUNDS;

EMISSION CONTROL;

ABATEMENT COST; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EMISSION CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GAS;

EID: 40649104755     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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