Innovation and the long-run elasticity of total taxable income

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 798-828

  Russo, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

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