Emissions trading and the polluter-pays principle: Do polluters pay under grandfathering?

Review of Law and Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Woerdman, Edwin ^a   Arcuri, Alessandra ^a   Clò, Stefano ^a  

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EID: 58149327316     PISSN: 15555879     EISSN: 15555879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1555-5879.1189     Document Type: Article

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