Political business cycles and inflation stabilization

Economics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-6

  Castro, Vítor ^a   Veiga, Francisco José ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Elections; Inflation stabilization; Nominal anchors; Political business cycles

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342311690     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2003.07.016     Document Type: Article

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