Rent taxation and its intertemporal welfare effects in a small open economy

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 697-709

  Koethenbuerger, Marko ^a   Poutvaara, Panu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Asset prices; Capitalization; Labor supply; Rent taxes; Transitional dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349092480     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: 15736970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10797-008-9085-9     Document Type: Article

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