Does judicial efficiency lower the cost of credit?

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1791-1812

  Laeven, Luc ^a,b   Majnoni, Giovanni ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Financial intermediation; Interest rate spreads; Law and finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548137436     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2004.06.036     Document Type: Article

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