Sovereign credit spreads and the composition of the government budget

Review of World Economics

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 510-524

  Van Landschoot, Astrid ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fiscal policy; Panel data; Sovereign credit risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 7044264918     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02665987     Document Type: Article

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