Federalism and the Soft Budget Constraint

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1143-1162

  Qian, Yingyi ^a   Roland, Gérard ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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