Environmental information provision as a public policy instrument

Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Petrakis, Emmanuel ^a   Sartzetakis, Eftichios Sophocles ^b   Xepapadeas, Anastasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Differentiated goods; Environmental taxation; Individual and external damages; Information provision

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449100514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15380645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1538-0645.1365     Document Type: Article

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