Fiscal decentralization and government quality in the OECD

Economics Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 191-193

  Kyriacou, Andreas P ^a   Roca Sagalés, Oriol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fiscal decentralization; Multi level government; Panel data; Quality of government

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953670820     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.02.019     Document Type: Article

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