Internalizing the climate externality: Can a uniform price commitment help?

Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 37-50

  Weitzman, Martin L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Global Warming; International public goods; Prices versus quantities; UN climate negotiations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995912031     PISSN: 21605882     EISSN: 21605890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5547/2160-5890.4.2.mwei     Document Type: Article

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