Title: Are carbon taxes the best tool to implement the Kyoto commitments? A comment on Stephen Smith's paper
Authors: G. Campbell Watkins
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Abstract: These comments cover key aspects of Smith|s paper. They focus on problems of awarding a central role to carbon taxes, and extend the discussion to harnessing the power of property rights via tradable permits.
Keywords: tax harmony; tax competition; allocative efficiency; location decisions; capital mobility; ecological dumping; price elasticity; efficiency; tradable permits.
DOI: 10.1504/IJGEI.1999.000858
International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 1999 Vol.12 No.7/8, pp.355-362
Published online: 24 Jul 2003 *
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