A measure of the efficacy of the Australian imputation tax system

Economic Record

Volumn 84, Issue 264, 2008, Pages 82-94

  Handley, John C ^a   Maheswaran, Krishnan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b KBC Alternative Investment Management   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUILIBRIUM; ESTIMATION METHOD; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; PRICE DETERMINATION; TAX SYSTEM;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 41049112898     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: 14754932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2008.00448.x     Document Type: Article

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