Inequality preserving rationing

Economics Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 355-360

  Hougaard, Jens Leth ^a   Østerdal, Lars Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Inequality preservation; Manipulation; Proportional method; Rationing; Taxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 18744390326     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2005.01.004     Document Type: Article

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