Budget rules and state business cycles

Public Finance Review

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 530-544

  Krol, Robert ^a   Svorny, Shirley ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced budget rules; Business cycles; Stabilization policy; State level public finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250008549     PISSN: 10911421     EISSN: 15527530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1091142106295761     Document Type: Article

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