Investment tax incentives, prices, and the supply of capital goods

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 120-148

  Goolsbee, Austan ^a  

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EID: 0040944351     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003355398555540     Document Type: Article

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