Seasonal cycles in public management: Disaggregation and re-aggregation

Public Money and Management

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-60

  Talbot, Colin ^a   Johnson, Carole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33750738156     PISSN: 09540962     EISSN: 14679302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9302.2007.00555.x     Document Type: Article

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