Contract enforcement, capital accumulation, and Argentina's long-run decline

Cliometrica

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-26

  Prados de la Escosura, Leandro ^a   Sanz Villarroya, Isabel ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Argentina; Contract intensive money; Economic decline

Indexed keywords

EID: 56749183963     PISSN: 18632505     EISSN: 18632513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11698-008-0026-8     Document Type: Article

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