The Cost-Effective Choice of Policy Instruments to Cap Aggregate Emissions with Costly Enforcement
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Keywords
Environmental policy; Cost-effectiveness; Enforcement costs; Monitoring costs; L51; Q28; K32; K42;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
- Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy
- K32 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
- K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
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