Keep your clunker in the suburb: Low-emission zones and adoption of green vehicles

Economic Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 578, 2014, Pages

  Wolff, Hendrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; SUBURBAN AREA;

GERMANY;

EID: 84904984412     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12091     Document Type: Article

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