A survey of the international empirical evidence on the tax-spend debate

Public Finance Review

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 302-324

  Payne, James E ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Budget deficits; Granger causality; Tax spend; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037995655     PISSN: 10911421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1091142103031003005     Document Type: Review

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