Financing development: The role of information costs

American Economic Review

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1875-1891

  Greenwood, Jeremy ^a   Sanchez, Juan M ^b,c   Wang, Cheng ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^c FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST LOUIS   (United States)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77956979259     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.4.1875     Document Type: Article

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