Timing is all: Elections and the duration of United States business cycles

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 84-101

  Klein, Michael W ^a  

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EID: 0040240350     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2077968     Document Type: Article

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