On spatial public finance empirics

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 475-492

  Revelli, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Expenditure spill over; Fiscal externalities; Tax competition; Yardstick competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744463433     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10797-005-4199-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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