The double dividend issue: Modeling strategies and empirical findings

Environment and Development Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 9-45

  Bosello, Francesco ^b   Carraro, Carlo ^b   Galeotti, Marzio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^b NONE

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EID: 0002816339     PISSN: 1355770X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X0100002X     Document Type: Article

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