Optimal Alcohol Taxes for Australia

Forum for Health Economics and Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Fogarty, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

alcohol; externality costs; tax

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899860495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15589544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/1558-9544.1276     Document Type: Article

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