Dollars Dollars Everywhere, Nor Any Dime to Lend: Credit Limit Constraints on Financial Sector Absorptive Capacity

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4281-4323

  Khwaja, Asim Ijaz ^a   Mian, Atif ^b   Zia, Bilal ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

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EID: 78649490008     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhq091     Document Type: Article

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