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/

Tax Design in the OECD:

A test of the Hines-Summers Hypothesis

Davide Furceri*

and

Georgios Karras **

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