Uncertainty over future environmental taxes: Impact on current investment in resource conservation

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 461-471

  Larson, Bruce A ^a   Frisvold, George B ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Economic Research Service United States Department of Agriculture   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental tax; policy uncertainty; sequential investment

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; NATURAL RESOURCES; POLLUTION CONTROL; PUBLIC POLICY;

ENVIRONMENTAL TAXES; SEQUENTIAL INVESTMENTS;

TAXATION;

EID: 0030443426     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00357414     Document Type: Article

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