Financial market globalization, symmetry-breaking and endogenous inequality of nations

Econometrica

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 853-884

  Matsuyama, Kiminori ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Broken symmetry; Credit market imperfection; Diminishing returns; Structuralism; Wealth dependent borrowing constraints

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; INVESTMENTS; MARKETING; SET THEORY;

BROKEN SYMMETRY; CREDIT MARKET IMPERFECTION; DIMINISHING RETURNS; STRUCTURALISM; WEALTH-DEPENDENT BORROWING-CONSTRAINTS;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 2642570954     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00514.x     Document Type: Article

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