Fiscal policy under loose commitment

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1005-1032

  Debortoli, Davide ^a   Nunes, Ricardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Commitment; Fiscal policy; No commitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951766100     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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