Measuring tax and incentive competition: What is the best yardstick?

Regional Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 751-764

  Fisher, Peter S ^a   Peters, Alan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypothetical firm; Incentives; Measurement; Taxes

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; INCENTIVE PROGRAMME ACTIVITY; METHODOLOGY; PLANNING METHOD; TAX BURDEN;

EID: 0031404837     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713693398     Document Type: Article

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