Reservation prices: An economic analysis of cigarette purchases on indian reservations

National Tax Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 93-118

  DeCicca, Philip ^a   Kenkel, Donald ^b   Liu, Feng ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cigarette taxes; Tax incidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937535134     PISSN: 00280283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2015.1.04     Document Type: Article

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