Location decisions of a polluting firm and the time consistency of environmental policy

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 197-214

  Petrakis, Emmanuel ^a   Xepapadeas, Anastasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abatement effort; Emission tax; Monopoly; Precommitment; Relocation; Time consistent policies

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; LOCATION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PUBLIC POLICY; TAXATION;

WELFARE;

POLLUTION;

INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; LOCATION DECISION; MONOPOLY; POLLUTION TAX; THEORETICAL STUDY; WELFARE IMPACT;

EID: 0038630949     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-7655(02)00026-X     Document Type: Article

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