Innovation and climate policy

Annual Review of Resource Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 275-298

  Popp, David ^a,b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative energy; Diffusion; Energy efficiency; R D; Technological change

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952611962     PISSN: 19411340     EISSN: 19411359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.resource.012809.103929     Document Type: Article

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