Steering the Climate System: Using Inertia to Lower the Cost of Policy
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- Lemoine, Derek & Rudik, Ivan, 2017. "Steering the Climate System: Using Inertia to Lower the Cost of Policy," ISU General Staff Papers 201710010700001659, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
- Lemoine, Derek & Rudik, Ivan, 2015. "Steering the Climate System: Using Inertia to Lower the Cost of Policy," ISU General Staff Papers 201507010700001014, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
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- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- 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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