Political competition, policy and growth: Theory and evidence from the US

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1329-1352

  Besley, Timothy ^a   Persson, Torsten ^b   Sturm, Daniel M ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MODEL TEST; PANEL DATA; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955746392     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2010.00606.x     Document Type: Article

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