Who's going broke? comparing growth in public healthcare expenditure in ten OECD countries

Hacienda Publica Espanola

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-72

  Hagist, Christian ^a   Kotlikoff, Laurence J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Healthcare expenditure growth; long term fiscal imbalance

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249084329     PISSN: 02101173     EISSN: 11339470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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