The distributional impacts of removing energy subsidies in China

China Economic Review

Volumn 33, Issue , 2015, Pages 111-122

  Jiang, Zhujun ^a   Ouyang, Xiaoling ^b   Huang, Guangxiao ^c  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Distributional impact; Energy subsidies; Input output price model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922378906     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2015.01.012     Document Type: Article

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