Offset carbon emissions or pay a price premium for avoiding them? A cross-country analysis of motives for climate protection activities
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Keywords
Public good; climate change; climate protection; carbon offsetting; price premium;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- 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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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2015-02-05 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENE-2015-02-05 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2015-02-05 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-REG-2015-02-05 (Regulation)
- NEP-RES-2015-02-05 (Resource Economics)
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