Cigarette smuggling: Price vs. nonprice incentives

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 587-592

  Goel, Rajeev K ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY PRICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INCENTIVE; POLICY APPROACH; PRICE DYNAMICS; SMOKING; SMUGGLING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 47349107179     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850600721981     Document Type: Article

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