Who shares risk with whom under different enforcement mechanisms?

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 677-706

  Barr, Abigail ^a   Dekker, Marleen ^b   Fafchamps, Marcel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GROUP BEHAVIOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 84862880635     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/665599     Document Type: Article

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