Interest rates, irreversibility, and backward-bending investment

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-91

  Chetty, Raj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

INTEREST RATE; INVESTMENT;

EID: 33846012512     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2007.00414.x     Document Type: Article

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