The firm-level credit multiplier

Journal of Financial Intermediation

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 446-472

  Campello, Murillo ^a   Hackbarth, Dirk ^b  

^a Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital structure; Credit multiplier; Financing constraints; Investment; Real options

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857673104     PISSN: 10429573     EISSN: 10960473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfi.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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