Combining Multiple Climate Policy Instruments: How Not to Do It

Climate Change Economics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 209-225

  Fankhauser, Samuel ^a   Hepburn, Cameron ^b   Park, Jisung ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MAGDALEN COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon tax; Carbon trading; climate change policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052891473     PISSN: 20100078     EISSN: 20100086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S2010007810000169     Document Type: Article

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