Economies of scale in the Swiss hydropower sector

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1109-1113

  Filippini, Massimo ^a,b   Luchsinger, Cornelia ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; PANEL DATA;

EID: 36549072505     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850500438728     Document Type: Article

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