Does Financial Repression Inhibit or Facilitate Economic Growth? A Case Study of Chinese Reform Experience

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 833-855

  Huang, Yiping ^a   Wang, Xun ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 82055200229     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: 14680084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2011.00677.x     Document Type: Article

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