Subsidies versus public provision of private goods as instruments for redistribution

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 545-564

  Boadway, Robin ^a   Marchand, Maurice ^b   Sato, Motohiro ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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EID: 0032334382     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9442.00121     Document Type: Article

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