Circumspection, reciprocity, and optimal carbon prices

Climatic Change

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 831-843

  Kopp, Robert E ^a   Mignone, Bryan K ^b  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSIONS; ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GLOBAL COOPERATION; GLOBAL OPTIMUM; MARGINAL BENEFIT; PRISONERS' DILEMMA; UNILATERAL ACTIONS;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; GREENHOUSE GASES;

OPTIMIZATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MITIGATION; RECIPROCITY;

EID: 84884700186     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0858-5     Document Type: Article

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