Productivity of market and environmental abatement in China

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 459-470

  Managi, Shunsuke ^a   Kaneko, Shinji ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

China; Environmental pollution; Environmental regulations; Luenberger productivity; Malmquist productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919919848     PISSN: 1432847X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03353951     Document Type: Article

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