Prices vs. quantities: The irrelevance of irreversibility

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 805-821

  Baldursson, Fridrik M ^a   von der Fehr, Nils Henrik M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Effluent taxes; Environmental management; Irreversibility; Regulation; Tradable quotas; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL TAX; QUOTA SYSTEM; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 11244265854     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0347-0520.2004.00389.x     Document Type: Article

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