Disaster policies: Some implications for public finance in the U.S. Federation

Public Finance Review

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 497-518

  Wildasin, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster policy; Extreme value theory; Intergovernmental fiscal relations; State government finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849106797     PISSN: 10911421     EISSN: 15527530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1091142107306286     Document Type: Article

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