Progressive taxes and firm births

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 129-168

  Bacher, Hans Ulrich ^a   Brülhart, Marius ^b,c  

^a Credit Suisse group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Count models; Entrepreneurship; Firm location; Progressive taxation; Risk taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872616770     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: 15736970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10797-012-9218-z     Document Type: Article

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