Games within borders: Are geographically differentiated taxes optimal?

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 574-597

  Agrawal, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Commodity taxation; Cross border shopping; Preferential tax rates; Tax competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865433815     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: 15736970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10797-012-9235-y     Document Type: Article

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