Price Subsidies Versus Public Provision

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 283-306

  Blömquist, Sören ^a   Christiansen, Vidar ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

In kind transfers; Optimal taxation; Price subsidy; Private goods; Public provision

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001320859     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008630110002     Document Type: Article

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