A laboratory comparison of uniform and discriminative price auctions for reducing non-point source pollution

Land Economics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-70

  Cason, Timothy N ^a   Gangadharan, Lata ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABATEMENT COST; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION CONTROL;

EID: 10944232018     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.81.1.51     Document Type: Article

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