Social spending and automatic stabilizers in the OECD

Economic Policy

Volumn 23, Issue 56, 2008, Pages 715-756

  Darby, Julia ^a,b   Melitz, Jacques ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MACROECONOMICS; MODELING; OECD; PUBLIC SPENDING;

EID: 53149129854     PISSN: 02664658     EISSN: 14680327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0327.2008.00210.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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