Hicks meets Hotelling: The direction of technical change in capital-resource economies

Environment and Development Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 691-717

  Di Maria, Corrado ^a   Valente, Simone ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 57749200670     PISSN: 1355770X     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X08004567     Document Type: Article

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