Testing Wagner's law using disaggregated public expenditure data in the case of Greece: 1958-93

Applied Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 371-377

  Chletsos, Michael ^a   Kollias, Christos ^a  

^a Centre of Planning and Economic Research   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; EXPENDITURE GROWTH; NATIONAL ECONOMY; PUBLIC EXPENDITURE; THEORETICAL STUDY; WAGNER'S LAW;

GREECE;

EID: 0030982457     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368497327155     Document Type: Article

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