Pareto efficient income taxation under costly monitoring

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 343-366

  Schroyen, Fred ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Auditing; Redistributive taxation; Tax evasion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031231871     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(97)00020-0     Document Type: Article

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