Time-varying uncertainty and the credit channel

Bulletin of Economic Research

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 375-403

  Dorofeenko, Victor ^a   Lee, Gabriel S ^a,b   Salyer, Kevin D ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency costs; Credit channel; Time varying uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS CYCLE; CAPITAL FLOW; CREDIT PROVISION; INVESTMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 53349145905     PISSN: 03073378     EISSN: 14678586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8586.2008.00284.x     Document Type: Article

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