The Perfect Finance Minister: Whom to Appoint as Finance Minister to Balance the Budget?
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- Jochimsen, Beate & Thomasius, Sebastian, 2014. "The perfect finance minister: Whom to appoint as finance minister to balance the budget," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 34(C), pages 390-408.
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Keywords
Fiscal policy; public deficit; political economy; finance minister;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
- H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General
- H74 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Borrowing
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