Fiscal consolidations in the central and Eastern European Countries

Review of World Economics

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 402-421

  Afonso, António ^a,b   Nickel, Christiane ^c   Rother, Philipp C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Central and Eastern Europe; Fiscal episodes; Fiscal policy; Logit models

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746924032     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-006-0073-9     Document Type: Article

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