Optimal Fuel Taxes and Heterogeneity of Cities

Review of Regional Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 173-209

  Hirte, Georg ^a   Tscharaktschiew, Stefan ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fuel tax; Gasoline tax; Job sprawl; Tax differentiation; Urban economics

Indexed keywords

FUEL; HETEROGENEITY; METROPOLITAN AREA; NATIONAL PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TAX SYSTEM; URBAN ECONOMY; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941418329     PISSN: 01737600     EISSN: 16139836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10037-014-0095-z     Document Type: Article

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