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Environmental Policies Choice as an Issue of Informational Efficiency

In: The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics, Second Edition

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  • Donatella Porrini, 2005. "Environmental Policies Choice as an Issue of Informational Efficiency," Chapters, in: Jürgen G. Backhaus (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics, Second Edition, chapter 23, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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