Consumer response to cigarette excise tax changes

National Tax Journal

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 621-650

  Chiou, Lesley ^a   Muehlegger, Erich ^b  

^a OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cigarettes; Consumer behavior; Excise taxes; Stockpiling; Tax avoidance; Tax incidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015910326     PISSN: 00280283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2014.3.05     Document Type: Article

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