Efficiency and distributional impacts of tradable white certificates compared to taxes, subsidies and regulations

Revue d'Economie Politique

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 885-914

  Giraudet, Louis Gaëtan ^a   Quirion, Philippe ^b  

^a Centre International de Recherche sur lEnvironnement et le Developpement   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Efficiency certificates; Energy saving policies energy; Rebound effect; White certificates

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649566477     PISSN: 03732630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/redp.186.0885     Document Type: Article

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