Taxation, reranking and equivalence scales

Bulletin of Economic Research

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-36

  van de Ven, Justin ^a   Creedy, John ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Equivalence scales; Reranking; Taxation

Indexed keywords

FISCAL POLICY; POLITICAL ECONOMY; TAX SYSTEM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 12844287602     PISSN: 03073378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8586.2005.00213.x     Document Type: Article

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