Cash on the Table? Imperfect Take-up of Tax Incentives and Firm Investment Behavior
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- Cui, Wei & Hicks, Jeffrey & Xing, Jing, 2022. "Cash on the table? Imperfect take-up of tax incentives and firm investment behavior," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 208(C).
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Keywords
tax incentives; investment; take-up; tax administration;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
- H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ACC-2022-01-10 (Accounting and Auditing)
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- NEP-PBE-2022-01-10 (Public Economics)
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