Decomposing inequality in CO2 emissions: The role of primary energy carriers and economic sectors
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- Grunewald, Nicole & Jakob, Michael & Mouratiadou, Ioanna, 2013. "Decomposing Inequality in CO2 Emissions: the Role of Primary Energy Carriers and Economic Sectors," VfS Annual Conference 2013 (Duesseldorf): Competition Policy and Regulation in a Global Economic Order 79779, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
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CO2 emission inequality; Gini decomposition by source; Economic sectors; Climate policy;All these keywords.
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- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
- Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
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