Economic growth and environmental efficiency: Evidence from US regions

Economics Letters

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-52

  Halkos, George E ^a   Tzeremes, Nickolaos G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Conditional measures; Directional distance function; Regional environmental efficiency; US regions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876480428     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.03.043     Document Type: Article

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