Taxes versus quantities for a stock pollutant with endogenous abatement costs and asymmetric information

Economic Theory

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 371-409

  Karp, Larry ^a   Zhang, Jiangfeng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Choice of instruments; Investment; Pollution control; Rational expectations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856001460     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-010-0561-y     Document Type: Article

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