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Prudence and UK Trend Growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Simon Kirby  and
James Mitchell
Simon Kirby*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
James Mitchell*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
*
e-mail: [email protected]
[email protected]
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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 197 , 01 July 2006 , pp. 58 - 64
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Copyright © 2006 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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Footnotes

Thanks to Ray Barrell and Martin Weale for helpful comments. We also owe a debt to Ken Wallis for comments made at the 2005 Stone Lectures held at the Bank of England.

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