Exhaustible resources, non-convexity and competitive equilibrium

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 177-193

  Cairns, Robert D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competitive equilibrium; Epsilon equilibrium; Exhaustible resources; Non co operative equilibrium; Non convex costs

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; OPERATING COSTS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPETITIVE EQUILIBRIUM; EPSILON EQUILIBRIUM; EXHAUSTIBLE RESOURCES; NON-CONVEX COSTS;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EQUILIBRIUM;

EID: 43849107116     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-007-9147-y     Document Type: Article

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