Modeling economic impacts of alternative international climate policy architectures: A quantitative and comparative assessment of architectures for agreement

Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy: Implementing Architectures for Agreement: Research from the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 715-752

  Bosetti, Valentina ^a   Carraro, Carlo ^b   Tavoni, Massimo ^a  

^a University of Venice ^*

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

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EID: 84927002838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511813207.024     Document Type: Chapter

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