Do environmental regulations inlfuence the location behavior of French firms?

Land Economics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 382-395

  Raspiller, Sébastien ^a   Riedinger, Nicolas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b Industrial Studies and Statistics Department

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; LOCATION DECISION; MODELING; PRODUCTION COST; SKILLED LABOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 48749100584     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.84.3.382     Document Type: Article

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