Optimal categorical transfer payments: The welfare economics of limited lump-sum redistribution

Journal of Public Economic Theory

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 483-500

  Viard, Alan D ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF DALLAS   (United States)

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EID: 43449093028     PISSN: 10973923     EISSN: 14679779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1097-3923.00080     Document Type: Article

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