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Is the price elasticity of demand for coal in China increasing?
Paul J. Burke
Hua Liao
Working Paper 85
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Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
Beijing Institute of Technology
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Beijing 100081
October 2015
This paper can be cited as: Paul J. Burke, Hua Liao. 2015. Is the price elasticity of demand for coal in China increasing? CEEP-BIT Working Paper.
The authors are grateful for comments from two reviewers, Ryan Edwards, Frank Jotzo, and participants at presentations in China and Australia. The authors acknowledge funding from the Australia-China Research Program on Climate Change Mitigation Policy, the CAS Strategic Priority Research Program (No. XDA05150600), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 71322306, 71273027, 71521002). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.
© 2015 by Paul J. Burke and Hua Liao. All rights reserved.
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