The impact of corporate and personal income taxes on the location of firms and on employment: Some panel evidence for the Swiss cantons

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 129-155

  Feld, Lars P ^a   Kirchgässner, Gebhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Business location; Corporate income taxes; Personal income taxes; Tax competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037210167     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(01)00175-X     Document Type: Article

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