Economic policy and performance in industrial democracies: Party governments, central banks and the fiscal-monetary policy mix

Economic Policy and Performance in Industrial Democracies: Party Governments, Central Banks and the Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-333

  Sakamoto, Takayuki ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203930724     Document Type: Book

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