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Emission Taxes, Feed-in Subsidies and the Investment in a Clean Technology by a Polluting Monopoly 排放税、上网电价补贴和污染垄断企业对清洁技术的投资

FEEM: ES (Economics for Sustainability) (Topic) Pub Date : 2019-07-16 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3420687

S. Rubio, Á. García-Alaminos

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