Investment, credit rationing, and the soft budget constraint: Evidence from Czech panel data

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 353-370

  Lízal, Lubomír ^c   Svejnar, Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CERGE EI   (Czech Republic)

^c NONE

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EID: 0012343419     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465302317411596     Document Type: Review

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