Bailouts in federations: Is a hard budget constraint always best?

International Economic Review

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 577-593

  Besfamille, Martin ^a   Lockwood, Ben ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TORCUATO DI TELLA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 43349088053     PISSN: 00206598     EISSN: 14682354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2354.2008.00490.x     Document Type: Article

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