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Tax competition and Leviathon

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  • Jeremy Edwards

    (Institute for Fiscal Studies)

  • Michael Keen

    (Institute for Fiscal Studies and International Monetary Fund)

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  • Jeremy Edwards & Michael Keen, 1994. "Tax competition and Leviathon," IFS Working Papers W94/07, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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