Regional favoritism

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 995-1033

  Hodler, Roland ^a,b,c   Raschky, Paul A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b CESifo ^*  (Switzerland)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LEADERSHIP; LOW INCOME POPULATION; REGIONAL POLITICS;

EID: 84899934431     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qju004     Document Type: Article

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