Economic Instruments for Climate Change

The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 468-485

  Meckling, Jonas ^a   Hepburn, Cameron ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c NEW COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cap and trade; Carbon tax; Carbon trading; Economic instruments; Emissions trading; Instrument choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888750019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118326213.ch27     Document Type: Chapter

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