Cost Savings from Allowance Trading in the 1990 Clean Air Act: Estimates from a Choice-Based Model

Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation: Lessons from Twenty Years of Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Keohane, Nathaniel O ^a  

^a YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Abatement; Cost savings; Environmental policy; Sulfur dioxide emissions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918865960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189650.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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