A Reduced-Form Approach to Behavioral Public Finance

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  2012

• Venue

  Annual Review of Economics

• Publication date

  2012-07-01

• Fields of study

  Economics

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  DOI 10.1146/ANNUREV-ECONOMICS-111809-125033
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