What are the effects of fiscal policy shocks?

Journal of Applied Econometrics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 960-992

  Mountford, Andrew ^a   Harald, Uhlig ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 70349814602     PISSN: 08837252     EISSN: 10991255     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jae.1079     Document Type: Article

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