The Costs of Disposal and Recycling. An Application to Italian Municipal Solid Waste Services
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- Graziano Abrate & Fabrizio Erbetta & Giovanni Fraquelli & Davide Vannoni, 2014. "The Costs of Disposal and Recycling: An Application to Italian Municipal Solid Waste Services," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(5), pages 896-909, May.
- Graziano Abrate & Fabrizio Erbetta & Giovanni Fraquelli & Davide Vannoni, 2011. "The Costs of Disposal and Recycling. An Application to Italian Municipal Solid Waste Services," Carlo Alberto Notebooks 232, Collegio Carlo Alberto.
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Keywords
Solid waste; recycling; cost functions;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods
- L33 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprise and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out
- L99 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Other
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EFF-2011-06-18 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-ENV-2011-06-18 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-URE-2011-06-18 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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