Growth, income inequality, and fiscal policy: What are the relevant trade-offs?

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 39, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 369-394

  García Peñalosa, Cecilia ^a   Turnovsky, Stephen J ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Endogenous growth; Fiscal policy; Income inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247510753     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-2879.2007.00029.x     Document Type: Article

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