Redistributive taxation with heterogeneous relative consumption concerns
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0008-4085,1540-5982
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2011.01693.x