Voluntary agreements: cost-effective or a smokescreen for failure?

Environmental Economics and Policy Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 147-165

  Bizer, Kilian ^a  

^a Institut fur Umweltstudien und Ange wandte Forschung (IESAR)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Policy instruments; Responsive regulation; Voluntary agreements

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920115542     PISSN: 1432847X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03353908     Document Type: Article

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