The design of tax policy in Canada: Thoughts prompted by Richard Blundell's 'Empirical evidence and tax policy design'

Canadian Journal of Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1184-1194

  Milligan, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN METHOD; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; POLICY REFORM; TAX SYSTEM;

EID: 81855211062     PISSN: 00084085     EISSN: 15405982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2011.01671.x     Document Type: Article

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