Interest rate restrictions in a natural experiment: Loan allocation and the change in the usury laws in 1714

Economic Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 528, 2008, Pages 743-758

  Temin, Peter ^a   Voth, Hans Joachim ^b  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL MARKET; CREDIT PROVISION; FINANCIAL MARKET; INTEREST RATE; LENDING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 41149136244     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02140.x     Document Type: Article

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