Incidence and Salience of Alcohol Taxes: Do Consumers Overreact?

Public Finance Review

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 344-369

  Hanson, Andrew ^a   Sullivan, Ryan ^b  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol tax; incidence; salience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962090569     PISSN: 10911421     EISSN: 15527530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1091142115591204     Document Type: Article

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