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Does a cap on the carbon price have to be a cap on green investments?

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  • Alexander Brauneis
  • Roland Mestel
  • Stefan Palan

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  • Alexander Brauneis & Roland Mestel & Stefan Palan, 2012. "Does a cap on the carbon price have to be a cap on green investments?," Empirica, Springer;Austrian Institute for Economic Research;Austrian Economic Association, vol. 39(2), pages 217-231, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:empiri:v:39:y:2012:i:2:p:217-231
    DOI: 10.1007/s10663-012-9188-5
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    Keywords

    Carbon price; Price cap; Market design; Power sector; Investment decision; D81; O38; Q55;
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    JEL classification:

    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy
    • Q55 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation

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