A model of money and credit, with application to the credit card debt puzzle

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 629-647

  Telyukova, Irina A ^a   Wright, Randall ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROVISION; DEBT; INTEREST RATE; MACROECONOMICS; MODELING; MONETARY POLICY;

EID: 40449084198     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2008.00487.x     Document Type: Article

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