The macroeconomic impact of decentralized spending and deficits: International evidence

Annals of Economics and Finance

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 403-433

  Fornasari, Francesca ^a   Webb, Steven B ^a   Zou, Heng Fu ^a,b,c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b Peking University   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Deficits; Public spending

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925604605     PISSN: 15297373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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