Testing the inverted-U hypothesis for US hazardous waste: An application of the generalized gamma model

Economics Letters

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 435-440

  Berrens, Robert P ^a   Bohara, Alok K ^a   Gawande, Kishore ^a   Pingo Wang, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental Kuznets curve; Hazardous waste; Q2

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031285270     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1765(97)00088-8     Document Type: Article

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