Tax and the Crisis

Fiscal Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-79

  Keen, Michael ^a   Klemm, Alexander ^a   Perry, Victoria ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Debt bias; Financial crisis; Real estate taxation; Tax policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951244818     PISSN: 01435671     EISSN: 14755890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5890.2010.00107.x     Document Type: Article

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