Dynamic optimal taxation with private information

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-30

  Albanesi, Stefania ^a   Sleet, Christopher ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBT; MARKET; OPTIMIZATION; TAX SYSTEM;

EID: 33646452080     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2006.00367.x     Document Type: Article

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