The economic geography of European carbon market trading

Journal of Economic Geography

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 817-841

  Knight, Eric R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon trading; Climate change; Corporate environmental performance; Economic geography; Market structure; Policy staging

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION; FINANCIAL MARKET; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80051695874     PISSN: 14682702     EISSN: 14682710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbq027     Document Type: Article

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