The Tax Man Cometh - but is he Efficient?

National Institute Economic Review

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 106-119

  Forsund, Finn R ^a   Kittelsen, Sverre A c ^b   Lindseth, Fode ^c   Fjeld Edvaedsen, Dag ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Frisch Centre   (Norway)

^c Norwegian Directorate of Taxes   (United States)

^d Norwegian Building Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; DEA; Efficiency; Productivity; Scale efficiency; Tax office

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992807020     PISSN: 00279501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0027950106070044     Document Type: Article

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