Climate Change Policy: The Effect of Real Options Valuation on the Optimal Mitigation-Adaptation Balance

Economic Papers

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 216-224

  Maybee, Bryan M ^a   Packey, Daniel J ^a   Ripple, Ronald D ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

adaptation; C610; climate change policy; mitigation; optimisation; Q510; Q540; real options

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886390505     PISSN: 08120439     EISSN: 17593441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-3441.2011.00158.x     Document Type: Article

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