A tale of two elasticities: A general theoretical framework for the environmental Kuznets curve analysis

Economics Letters

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 85-88

  Figueroa B , Eugenio ^a   Pasten, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Elasticity of substitution between factors; Environmental Kuznets curve; Income elasticity of marginal utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874402959     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.01.019     Document Type: Article

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