Do vertical tax externalities lead to tax rates being too high? A note

Annals of Regional Science

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 225-233

  Madiès, Thierry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODELING; PUBLIC GOODS; TAX SYSTEM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 38549168486     PISSN: 05701864     EISSN: 14320592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00168-007-0135-5     Document Type: Article

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