Taxing across Borders: Tracking Personal Wealth and Corporate Profits

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 121-148

  Zucman, Gabriel ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84986887493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 08953309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.28.4.121     Document Type: Article

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