Identifying strategic interactions in Swedish local income tax policies

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 849-857

  Edmark, Karin ^a   Ågren, Hanna ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fiscal Federalism; Local income tax; Spatial auto correlation; Tax competition; Yardstick competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 41049085786     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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