Financing constraints and inventories

European Economic Review

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1091-1123

  Brown, Ward ^a   Haegler, Urs ^b,c  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Financing constraints; Inventory management

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL PROVISION; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INVENTORY; MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 3242678155     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2003.09.007     Document Type: Article

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