Overlapping soft budget constraints

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 259-269

  Breuillé, Marie Laure ^a   Vigneault, Marianne ^b  

^a Centre d'Economie et Sociologie Appliquees a l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux   (France)

^b BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capital tax competition; Fiscal federalism; Soft budget constraint

Indexed keywords

EID: 77049117508     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2009.09.011     Document Type: Article

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