Financial pressure, monetary policy effects and inventories: Firm-level evidence from a market-based and a bank-based financial system

Economica

Volumn 72, Issue 286, 2005, Pages 201-224

  Benito, Andrew ^a  

^a BANK OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL MARKET; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; MONETARY POLICY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 18644368842     PISSN: 00130427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-0427.2005.00411.x     Document Type: Article

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