Population size and environmental quality

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 299-316

  Cronshaw, Mark B ^a   Requate, Till ^b  

^a The Economics Institute in Boulder   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emission tax; First best allocation; Pigouvian tax; Population size

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031287636     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001480050045     Document Type: Article

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