In Search of "Capital Crunch": Supply Factors Behind the Credit Slowdown in Japan

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 35, Issue 6 1, 2003, Pages 1019-1038

  Woo, David ^a  

^a Citigroup ^*  (United Kingdom)

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