Voting over income taxation

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 249-286

  Carbonell Nicolau, Oriol ^a   Ok, Efe A ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuous games; Electoral competition; Mixed strategy equilibrium; Progressive taxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247151522     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2006.02.008     Document Type: Article

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