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