Do agglomeration economies reduce the sensitivity of firm location to tax differentials?

Economic Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 563, 2012, Pages 1069-1093

  Brülhart, Marius ^a   Jametti, Mario ^b   Schmidheiny, Kurt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC THEORY; INDUSTRIAL AGGLOMERATION; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TAX SYSTEM;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84865791531     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02511.x     Document Type: Article

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