International environmental agreements under uncertainty: Does the 'veil of uncertainty' help?

Oxford Economic Papers

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 736-764

  Finus, Michael ^a   Pintassilgo, Pedro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABATEMENT COST; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; LEARNING; MITIGATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866753007     PISSN: 00307653     EISSN: 14643812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpr054     Document Type: Article

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