Reconciling stability and growth: Smart pacts and structural reforms

IMF Staff Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 431-456

  Beetsma, Roel M W J ^a   Debrun, Xavier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

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