Inefficient credit booms

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 809-833

  Lorenzoni, Guido ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; CREDIT PROVISION; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FINANCIAL MARKET; MODELING;

EID: 39649120748     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2008.00494.x     Document Type: Article

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