THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS
Working Paper No. 599, 2003
Bottled Water -- A Case of Pointless Trade?
by Richard Friberg and Mattias Ganslandt
IUI, The Research Institute of Industrial Economics
P.O. Box 5501
SE-114 85 Stockholm
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