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Public expenditure growth in Greece and Portugal: Wagner's law and beyond

Anthony S. Courakis Oxford University
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Fatima Moura-Roque Universidade Nova de Lisboa
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George Tridimas Department of Economics, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 218, Reading, UKRG6 2AA
Pages 125-134 | Published online: 28 Jul 2006

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