The environmental Kuznets curve and satiation: A simple static model

Environment and Development Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 429-448

  Lieb, Christoph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abatement; Environmental Kuznets curve; Normal goods; Pollution; Satiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348190110     PISSN: 1355770X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X02000268     Document Type: Article

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