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Sensitivity of optimal commodity taxes to relaxing leisure/goods separability and to the wage rate

Publication Type : Journal Article

Publisher : elsevier

Source : Economics Letters, vol. 24, pp. 273 - 277, 1987

Url : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0165176587901303

Campus : Amritapuri

School : School of Economics

Center : Amrita Center for Economics & Governance (ACEG)

Department : Department of Economics

Year : 1987

Abstract : This paper uses a new labour-augmented demand functional form to calculate optimal commodity taxes for India. The optimal taxes, which are far from uniform, are extremely sensitive to deviation from leisure/goods separability and to variation in the wage-rate parameter.

Cite this Research Publication :
Maddipati Narsimha Murty and Ray, R., “Sensitivity of optimal commodity taxes to relaxing leisure/goods separability and to the wage rate”, Economics Letters, vol. 24, pp. 273 - 277, 1987

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