Bubbles and self-enforcing debt

Econometrica

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1137-1164

  Hellwig, Christian ^a,b   Lorenzoni, Guido ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Rational bubbles; Risk sharing; Self enforcing debt; Sovereign debt

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349139367     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA6754     Document Type: Article

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