Welfare effects of fiscal subsidies on home ownership in the Netherlands

Economist

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 323-336

  van Ewijk, Casper ^a,b   Jacobs, Bas ^b,c   de Mooij, Ruud ^d  

^a CPB NETHERLANDS BUREAU FOR ECONOMIC POLICY ANALYSIS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NETSPAR   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISCAL POLICY; HOMEOWNERSHIP; HOUSING POLICY; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; WELFARE IMPACT;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548513285     PISSN: 0013063X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10645-007-9064-z     Document Type: Article

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