Are we taxing ourselves?. How deliberation and experience shape voting on taxes.

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 95, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 164-176

  Sausgruber, Rupert ^a   Tyran, Jean Robert ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Deliberation; Learning; Tax liability side equivalence; Tax shifting; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650201756     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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