Lessons from the Russian meltdown: The economics of soft legal constraints

International Finance

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 359-399

  Perotti, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; DEBT; EXCHANGE RATE; FINANCIAL CRISIS;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0036929548     PISSN: 13670271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2362.00101     Document Type: Article

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