Measuring the Subsidy Component of Biofuel tax Credits and Exemptions

The Economics of Alternative Energy Sources and Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 49-64

  Kliauga, Erika M ^a   de Gorter, Harry ^a   Just, David R ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

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DOI: 10.2174/978160805233211101010049     Document Type: Chapter

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