Fiscal discipline and asymmetric adjustment of revenues and expenditures: Local government responses to shocks in Denmark

Public Finance Review

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 208-234

  Rattsø, Jørn ^a   Tovmo, Per ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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EID: 0037985003     PISSN: 10911421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/109114210203000303     Document Type: Review

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