Innovative carbon allowance allocation policy for the shenzhen emission trading scheme in China

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ye, Bin ^a   Jiang, Jingjing ^b,c   Miao, Lixin ^a   Li, Ji ^c   Peng, Yang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Allowance allocation; Carbon emission trading; China; Game theory; Policy innovation

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; EMISSIONS TRADING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MITIGATION; POLICY STRATEGY; POLLUTION POLICY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; SHENZHEN;

EID: 84956630954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8010003     Document Type: Article

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