The political Stability and Growth Pact is dead: Long live the economic Stability and Growth Pact

Journal of Common Market Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 969-990

  Leblond, Patrick ^a  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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EID: 33845458408     PISSN: 00219886     EISSN: 14685965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2006.00670.x     Document Type: Article

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