Asymmetric information, financial intermediation, and business cycles

Economic Theory

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 599-620

  Cooley, Thomas F ^a   Nam, Kwanghee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b Korea Economic Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Financial intermediation; Liquidity effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032220977     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001990050237     Document Type: Article

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