Expanding credit access: Using randomized supply decisions to estimate the impacts

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 433-464

  Karlan, Dean ^a   Zinman, Jonathan ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 75449117102     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhp092     Document Type: Article

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