Trade effects of alternative carbon border-tax schemes

Review of World Economics

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 587-609

  Mattoo, Aaditya ^a   Subramanian, Arvind ^b,e   van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique ^c   He, Jianwu ^d  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS   (United States)

^c FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^d Development Research Center of the State Council   (China)

^e CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environment; Trade; Trade policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880925897     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-013-0159-0     Document Type: Article

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