Agency Costs, Net Worth, and Business Fluctuations: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 893-910

  Carlstrom, Charles T ^a   Fuerst, Timothy S ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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