Does the social Cost of Carbon Matter?: An Assessment of U.S. Policy
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- Robert W. Hahn & Robert A. Ritz, 2013. "Does the Social Cost of Carbon Matter?: An Assessment of U.S. Policy," Working Papers EPRG 1323, Energy Policy Research Group, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
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- H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
- K32 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Energy, Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
- Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects
- 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-ENE-2013-12-06 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2013-12-06 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-REG-2013-12-06 (Regulation)
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