Financial pressure and the behaviour of public enterprises under soft and hard budget constraints: Evidence from Italian panel data

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 73-98

  Bertero, Elisabetta ^a   Rondi, Laura ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

D21; D24; Financial discipline; G32; Italian firms; L33; Panel data; Public enterprises; Soft hard budget constraint

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012730532     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(99)00057-2     Document Type: Article

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