An Experimental Analysis of Compliance in Dynamic Emissions Markets
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- Stranlund, John K. & Murphy, James J. & Spraggon, John M., 2011. "An experimental analysis of compliance in dynamic emissions markets," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 62(3), pages 414-429.
- John K. Stranlund & James J. Murphy & John M. Spraggon, 2011. "An Experimental Analysis of Compliance in Dynamic Emissions Markets," Working Papers 2011-01, University of Alaska Anchorage, Department of Economics.
- Stranlund, John K. & Murphy, James J. & Spraggon, John M., 2010. "An Experimental Analysis of Compliance in Dynamic Emissions Markets," Working Paper Series 93966, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Resource Economics.
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compliance; enforcement; emissions trading; laboratory experiments; permit markets; permit banking;JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
- 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-2010-10-02 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2010-10-02 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2010-10-02 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-REG-2010-10-02 (Regulation)
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