The limitations of decentralized world redistribution: An optimal taxation approach

European Economic Review

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1051-1079

  Kopczuk, Wojciech ^a   Slemrod, Joel ^b   Yitzhaki, Shlomo ^c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Foreign aid; Inequality; Redistribution

Indexed keywords

AID POLICY; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DECENTRALIZATION; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INTERNATIONAL AID;

EID: 13444283360     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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