Interest rate policy and incentives of state-owned enterprises in the transitional China

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 292-318

  Zou, Liang ^a   Sun, Laixiang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0030529354     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcec.1996.0066     Document Type: Article

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