Leverage and Asset Bubbles: Averting Armageddon with Chapter 11?

Economic Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 544, 2010, Pages 500-518

  Miller, Marcus ^a   Stiglitz, Joseph ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; DEBT; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INTEREST RATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EID: 77953743736     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02357.x     Document Type: Article

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