Group rewards and individual sanctions in environmental policy

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 38-59

  Dijkstra, Bouwe R ^a,d   Rübbelke, Dirk T G ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE BC3   (Spain)

^c BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^d CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Stochastic emissions; Team incentive scheme; UK Climate Change Agreements

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE AGREEMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HIGH PROBABILITY; INCENTIVE SCHEMES;

ECONOMICS;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTICITY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84872782843     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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