Basic analytics of multilateral lending and surveillance

Journal of International Economics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 126-136

  Hagen, Rune Jansen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cheap talk; Multilateral financial institutions; Signalling; Sovereign debt; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL MARKET; CREDIT PROVISION; DEBT; INVESTMENT; LENDING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 69549084576     PISSN: 00221996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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