Contracts, hold-up, and exports: Textiles and opium in colonial India

American Economic Review

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 967-989

  Kranton, Rachel ^a   Swamy, Anand V ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 67349139426     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.98.3.967     Document Type: Article

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