The social cost of carbon emissions: Seven propositions

Economics Letters

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 90-97

  Foley, Duncan K ^a   Rezai, Armon ^b   Taylor, Lance ^a  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Carbon price; Climate change; Climate policy; Cost benefit analysis; Scenario dependent discounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881514411     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.07.006     Document Type: Article

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