Budgetary procedures and deficits in Norwegian local governments

Economics of Governance

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-49

  Tovmo, Per ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Budgetary institutions; Local governments; Panel data; Public deficits

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750905876     PISSN: 14356104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10101-006-0013-0     Document Type: Article

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