The Politics of Risk-sharing: Fiscal Federalism and the Greek Debt Crisis

Journal of European Integration

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 271-285

  Zahariadis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

economic governance; fiscal federalism; Greece; risk management; sovereign debt crisis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876317895     PISSN: 07036337     EISSN: 14772280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2013.774787     Document Type: Article

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