On the effects of asymmetric and endogenous taxation in experimental public goods games

Economics Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-67

  Sutter, Matthias ^a   Weck Hannemann, Hannelore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Crowding out; Endogeneity; Public goods; Taxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037400320     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(02)00288-4     Document Type: Article

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