The influence of the specification of climate change damages on the social cost of carbon

Economics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kopp, Robert E ^a   Golub, Alexander ^b   Keohane, Nathaniel O ^b   Onda, Chikara ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Integrated assessment modeling; Social cost of carbon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865096524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18646042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2012-13     Document Type: Article

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