Financial innovations and corporate bankruptcy

Journal of Financial Intermediation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 283-317

  Franks, Julian ^a,b   Sussman, Oren ^c,d  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d WADHAM COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate bankruptcy; Financial innovations; Freedom of contracting; Institutional stagnation; Standard contracts

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444474206     PISSN: 10429573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfi.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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