Detrimental externalities, pollution rights, and the "Coase theorem"

Economic Theory

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 309-327

  Chipman, John S ^a   Tian, Guoqiang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coase theorem; Parallel preferences; Pollution rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855997113     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-011-0602-1     Document Type: Article

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