Layoffs and lemons over the business cycle

Economics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-58

  Nakamura, Emi ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Business cycles; Layoffs; Signaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 41049091348     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.05.028     Document Type: Article

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