Efficiency improvements and water policy in the Balearic Islands: A general equilibrium approach

Investigaciones Economicas

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 441-463

  Tirado, Dolores ^a   Gómez, Carlos M ^b   Lozano, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Applied general equilibrium; Water economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849123232     PISSN: 02101521     EISSN: 15754367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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