Carbon Footprint Taxes

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 37-70

  McAusland, Carol ^a   Najjar, Nouri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint tax; Climate change; Default footprints; World Trade Organization

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPETITION; GREENHOUSE GASES; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; TAXATION;

CALCULATION COST; CLIMATE POLICY; DEFAULT FOOTPRINTS; DOMESTIC FIRMS; PRODUCT CLASS; TAX BASIS; VALUE ADDED TAX; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATIONS;

CARBON FOOTPRINT;

EID: 84929521838     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: 15731502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-013-9749-5     Document Type: Article

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