Do fiscal rules dampen the political business cycle?
β Scribed by Shanna Rose
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 250 KB
- Volume
- 128
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0048-5829
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