Urban water demand with periodic error correction

Land Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 528-544

  Bell, David R ^a   Griffin, Ronald C ^b  

^a TEXAS AANDM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; MODEL VALIDATION; PRICE DYNAMICS; URBAN AREA; WATER DEMAND;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053224563     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.87.3.528     Document Type: Article

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