Interest rates and investment in East Asia: An empirical evaluation of various financial liberalisation hypotheses

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 142-173

  Agrawal, Pradeep ^a,b  

^a Economics and Strategic Research   (Kazakhstan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL CRISIS; INTEREST RATE; INVESTMENT; LIBERALIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 2542424459     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0022038042000213238     Document Type: Article

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