Market Power in an Exhaustible Resource Market: The Case of Storable Pollution Permits

Economic Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 551, 2011, Pages 116-144

  Liski, Matti ^a   Montero, Juan Pablo ^b  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; EMISSION CONTROL; KYOTO PROTOCOL; MONOPOLY; RESOURCE ECONOMY; SULFUR;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951521583     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02366.x     Document Type: Article

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