International reserve holdings with sovereign risk and costly tax collection

Economic Journal

Volumn 114, Issue 497, 2004, Pages 569-591

  Aizenman, Joshua ^a   Marion, Nancy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBT; POLITICAL ECONOMY; SAVINGS; TAX SYSTEM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 3242891869     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2004.00232.x     Document Type: Article

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