China's value-added tax reform, capital accumulation, and welfare implications

China Economic Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 197-214

  LIN, Shuanglin ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital accumulation; China; Tax reforms; Value added tax; Welfare implications

Indexed keywords

EID: 42949134484     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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