Is carbon emissions trading profitable?

Economic Modelling

Volumn 47, Issue , 2015, Pages 84-92

  Narayan, Paresh Kumar ^a   Sharma, Susan Sunila ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon; Emissions trading scheme; Predictability; Profits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923374337     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2015.01.001     Document Type: Article

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