Complexities Due to Sluggish Expansion of Backstop Technologies

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 153-174

  Wirl, Franz ^a   Withagen, Cees ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Backstop; Limit cycles; Pollution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346737563     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01676981     Document Type: Article

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