Managing the quality of a resource with stock and flow controls

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 91, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 541-569

  Keohane, Nathaniel ^a   Van Roy, Benjamin ^b   Zeckhauser, Richard ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

(S,s) policies; Abatement; Pollution; Public infrastructure; Restoration; Stochastic control theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847070383     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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