Electoral and partisan cycle regularities: A cointegration test

Journal of Policy Modeling

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 119-140

  Andrikopoulos, Andreas A ^a   Prodromidis, Kyprianos P ^a   Serletis, Apostolos ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Electoral cycles; Greece; Instruments; Partisan cycles; Regularities; Targets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032044150     PISSN: 01618938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-8938(96)00068-3     Document Type: Article

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