Fiscal adjustments: Do labor and product market institutions matter?

Public Choice

Volumn 139, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 389-411

  Tagkalakis, Athanasios ^a  

^a Ministry of Economy and Finance   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fiscal adjustments; Institutions; Labor market; Probit analysis; Product market

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349109873     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-009-9400-8     Document Type: Article

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