Household Borrowing after Personal Bankruptcy

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 43, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 491-517

  Han, Song ^a   Li, Geng ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer finance; Credit access; Financial distress; Personal bankruptcy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953004082     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: 15384616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2010.00382.x     Document Type: Article

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