Representative democracy and marginal rate progressive income taxation

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 9-10, 2003, Pages 2339-2366

  Carbonell Nicolau, Oriol ^a   Klor, Esteban F ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Marginal rate progressive income taxation; Representative democracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141648640     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(03)00073-2     Document Type: Erratum

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