The importance of local corporate taxes in business location decisions: Evidence from french micro data

Economic Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 527, 2008, Pages 499-514

  Rathelot, Roland ^a   Sillard, Patrick ^a  

^a INSEE CREST ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CORPORATE STRATEGY; CORRELATION; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; MODELING; POISSON RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAX SYSTEM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 39649100614     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02131.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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