Breaking Budgets: An Empirical Examination of Danish Municipalities

Financial Accountability and Management

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 413-435

  Serritzlew, Søren ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

budget overruns; budget rules; budgeting; overspending

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144536027     PISSN: 02674424     EISSN: 14680408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0267-4424.2005.00227.x     Document Type: Article

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