Do Americans consume too little natural gas? An empirical test of marginal cost pricing

RAND Journal of Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 791-810

  Davis, Lucas W ^a   Muehlegger, Erich ^b  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 78149475339     PISSN: 07416261     EISSN: 17562171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-2171.2010.00121.x     Document Type: Article

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