Optimal marginal and average income taxation under maximin

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 425-441

  Boadway, Robin ^a   Jacquet, Laurence ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Maximin; Optimal income taxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549144724     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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