Fuel Exemptions, Revenue Recycling, Equity and Efficiency: Evaluating Post-Kyoto Policies for Switzerland

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 197-227

  Imhof, Jan ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon Tax; Climate Cent; Computable General Equilibrium; D31; D58; Distributional Consequences; Double Dividend; H23; Q48; Q52; Q58; Tax Exemptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888362395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22356282     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03399366     Document Type: Article

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