Cross-border shopping: A survey

International Advances in Economic Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 135-148

  Leal, Andrés ^a   López Laborda, Julio ^b   Rodrigo, Fernando ^b  

^a Government of Aragon   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cross border shopping; Tax differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952427873     PISSN: 10830898     EISSN: 1573966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11294-010-9258-z     Document Type: Article

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