Recent theoretical work on the soft budget constraint

American Economic Review

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 421-425

  Maskin, Eric S ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000212579     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.89.2.421     Document Type: Article

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