Tax Design in the OECD: A test of the Hines-Summers Hypothesis

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Tax Design in the OECD: A test of the Hines-Summers Hypothesis

Furceri, Davide and Karras, Georgios

June 2010

Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23358/

MPRA Paper No. 23358, posted 18 Jun 2010 05:41 UTC

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Tax Design in the OECD:

A test of the Hines-Summers Hypothesis

Davide Furceri*

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Georgios Karras **

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