Do countries compete over corporate tax rates?

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 92, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 1210-1235

  Devereux, Michael P ^a   Lockwood, Ben ^b   Redoano, Michela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate taxes; Tax competition; Transfer pricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849137927     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.09.005     Document Type: Article

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