Excise Taxes, Tax Incidence, and the Flight to Quality: Evidence from Scanner Data

Public Finance Review

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 147-176

  Espinosa, Javier ^a   Evans, William N ^b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

cigarettes; excise taxes; scanner data; tax incidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873652399     PISSN: 10911421     EISSN: 15527530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1091142112460724     Document Type: Article

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