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Is carbon leakage really low? A critical reconsideration of the leakage concept

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  • Florian Habermacher

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The emphasis of the book lies in finding critical solutions to global climate change including chapters on environmental fiscal reform and unemployment in Spain, EU structural and cohesion policy and sustainable development, ecological tax reform in Europe and Asia, Australia’s carbon pricing mechanism, and many other timely topics.

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  • Florian Habermacher, 2012. "Is carbon leakage really low? A critical reconsideration of the leakage concept," Chapters, in: Larry Kreiser & Ana Yábar Sterling & Pedro Herrera & Janet E. Milne & Hope Ashiabor (ed.), Carbon Pricing, Growth and the Environment, chapter 16, pages 247-260, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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