Fiscal Institutions and Fiscal Performance.

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Author / Creator:Poterba, James M.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Description:1 online resource (402 pages).
Language:English
Series:National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11347242
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Other authors / contributors:Von Hagen, Jurgen.
ISBN:9780226676302
0226676307
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Summary:The unprecedented rise and persistence of large-scale budget deficits in many developed and developing nations during the past three decades has caused great concern. The widespread presence of such deficits has proved difficult to explain. Their emergence in otherwise diverse nations defies particularistic explanations aimed at internal economic developments within a specific country. Fiscal Institutions and Fiscal Performance shifts emphasis away from narrow economic factors to more broadly defined political and institutional factors that affect government policy and national debt. This coll.
Other form:9780226676234