Accounting for Irish growth: A balance-of-payments - Constraint approach

Journal of Post Keynesian Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 409-433

  Garcimartín, Carlos ^a,b   Rivas, Luis Alberto ^c   De Sarralde, Santiago Diaz ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^d Spanish Centre of Fiscal Studies ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

External constraint; Foreign direct investment; Growth accounting; Irish economy; Tax policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449156235     PISSN: 01603477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/PKE0160-3477300306     Document Type: Article

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