Financing growth and local governments in Japan: Why does the government keep growing?

Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 153-162

  Hanai, Kiyohito ^a   Tajika, Eiji ^b   Yui, Yuji ^a  

^a SEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central and local governments; Japan; Public investment; Transfer systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034559740     PISSN: 0018280X     EISSN: 2436097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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