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Can Baumol's model of unbalanced growth contribute to explaining the secular rise in health care expenditure? An alternative test

Jochen Hartwig KOF–Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 173-184 | Published online: 28 Apr 2009

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