Retail price reactions to changes in state and local sales taxes

National Tax Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 165-175

  Poterba, James M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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