Economies of scale and self-financing rules with non-competitive factor markets

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 431-450

  Small, Kenneth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Highway investment; Monopsony; Scale economies; Self financing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033474496     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(99)00032-8     Document Type: Article

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