The credit rating crisis

NBER Macroeconomics Annual

Volumn 24, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Benmelech, Efraim ^a   Dlugosz, Jennifer ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77649145498     PISSN: 08893365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
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