The incidence of sin taxes

Economics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-99

  Kotakorpi, Kaisa ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Self control; Tax incidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249028714     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.04.012     Document Type: Article

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