International aspects of fiscal convergences on regional and local level

Lex Localis

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 827-847

  Vojinović, Borut ^a   Próchniak, Mariusz ^b   Oplotnik, Žan Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Economic integration; EU convergence; EU member states; Fiscal decentralization; Local self government

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938562017     PISSN: 15815374     EISSN: 1855363X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4335/13.3.827-847(2015)     Document Type: Article

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