Unsecured credit markets are not insurance markets

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 83-103

  Athreya, Kartik ^a   Tam, Xuan S ^b   Young, Eric R ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Bankruptcy; Default; Risk sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 59949096759     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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