Untested hypotheses in non-renewable resource economics

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 623-634

  Withagen, Cees ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hotelling rule; Resource economics

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MARKETING;

HOTELLING RULE; NONRENEWABLE RESOURCES;

NATURAL RESOURCES;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0032052592     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008204107510     Document Type: Conference Paper

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