Planning to cheat: Eu fiscal policy in real time

Economic Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 60, 2009, Pages 753-804

  Beetsma, Roel ^a   Giuliodori, Massimo ^a   Wierts, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC PLANNING; EUROPEAN UNION; FISCAL POLICY; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; REGIONAL PLANNING;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 70350166774     PISSN: 02664658     EISSN: 14680327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0327.2009.00230.x     Document Type: Article

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