Short-term and long-term government debt and nonresident interest withholding taxes

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 309-334

  Eijffinger, Sylvester C W ^a   Huizinga, Harry P ^a   Lemmen, Jan J G ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

G15; Government debt; H22; H63; Interest parity conditions; Withholding taxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005010917     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(98)00013-9     Document Type: Article

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