European fiscal discipline before and after EMU: Crash diet or permanent weight loss?

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 404-424

  Hallett, Andrew Hughes ^a   Lewis, John ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dynamic structural breaks; Fiscal consolidation; Probit regressions

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649105514     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: 14698056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1365100507070204     Document Type: Article

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