Exploring the impacts of a carbon tax on the Chinese economy using a CGE model with a detailed disaggregation of energy sectors

Energy Economics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 455-462

  Guo, Zhengquan ^a   Zhang, Xingping ^a   Zheng, Yuhua ^b   Rao, Rao ^a  

^a NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon emissions; Carbon tax; Computable general equilibrium model

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; CARBON EMISSIONS; CARBON TAXES; CGE MODEL; CHINESE ECONOMY; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL; DISAGGREGATION; ENERGY SECTOR;

CARBON EMISSION; COAL; COMBUSTION; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC IMPACT; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FOSSIL FUEL; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLLUTION TAX;

CHINA;

EID: 84907695164     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2014.08.016     Document Type: Article

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