What makes the models-policy interaction successful?

Economic Modelling

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 443-475

  Den Butter, Frank A G ^a,b   Morgan, Mary S ^c,d  

^a Sci Council for Government Policy   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A11; C5; E17; E61; Normative economics; Policy making; Tacit knowledge; Use of models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032117048     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-9993(98)00022-4     Document Type: Article

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