Unilateral climate policy design: Efficiency and equity implications of alternative instruments to reduce carbon leakage

Energy Economics

Volumn 34, Issue SUPPL.2, 2012, Pages

  Böhringer, Christoph ^a   Carbone, Jared C ^b   Rutherford, Thomas F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Border carbon adjustments; Efficiency equity trade offs; Exemptions; Leakage; Output based allocation; Unilateral climate policy

Indexed keywords

BORDER CARBON ADJUSTMENTS; CLIMATE POLICY; EFFICIENCY-EQUITY TRADE-OFFS; EXEMPTIONS; OUTPUT-BASED ALLOCATION;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; EFFICIENCY; LEAKAGE (FLUID);

CARBON;

ABATEMENT COST; CARBON EMISSION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMISSIONS TRADING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; POLLUTION TAX; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK;

EID: 84870056676     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2012.09.011     Document Type: Article

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