The financial accelerator and the flight to quality

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-15

  Bernanke, Ben ^a   Gertler, Mark ^a   Gilchrist, Simon ^a  

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EID: 0030527404     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2109844     Document Type: Article

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