Environmental policy on the back of an envelope: A Cobb-Douglas model is not just a teaching tool
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- Don Fullerton & Chi Lan Ta, 2019. "Environmental Policy on the Back of an Envelope: A Cobb-Douglas Model is Not Just a Teaching Tool," CESifo Working Paper Series 7472, CESifo.
- Don Fullerton & Chi L. Ta, 2019. "Environmental Policy on the Back of an Envelope: A Cobb-Douglas Model is Not Just a Teaching Tool," NBER Working Papers 25582, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Climate policy; Energy economics; General equilibrium;All these keywords.
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- D58 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
- D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- Q31 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
- Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
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