Comparative statics of a monopolistic firm facing rate-of-return and command-and-control pollution constraints

Bulletin of Economic Research

Volumn 66, Issue S1, 2014, Pages S17-S35

  Caputo, Michael R ^a   Popov, Dmitriy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Averch Johnson; Command and control regulations; Comparative statics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911941166     PISSN: 03073378     EISSN: 14678586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/boer.12003     Document Type: Article

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