Status effects, public goods provision, and excess burden

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 92, Issue 10-11, 2008, Pages 1968-1985

  Wendner, Ronald ^a   Goulder, Lawrence H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption externality; Corrective taxation; D62; Deadweight loss; Excess burden; First best; H23; H41; Public goods provision; Second best; Status effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 53549128948     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2008.04.011     Document Type: Article

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