Defence specific inflation: A Canadian perspective

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-36

  Solomon, Binyam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chained index; DND contracts; Finn fixed price contracts; Inflation; Laspeyres index

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037301424     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242690302935     Document Type: Article

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