Environmental abatement and intergenerational distribution

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-84

  Bovenberg, A Lans ^a   Heijdra, Ben J ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Debt policy; Intergenerational welfare effects; Overlapping generations; Public environmental abatement

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENTS; PUBLIC POLICY;

ENVIRONMENTAL ABATEMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

DEBT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFER; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EID: 0036749106     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020236812676     Document Type: Article

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