Credit constraints and self-fulfilling business cycles

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Volumn 6, Issue 1 C, 2014, Pages 32-69

  Liu, Zheng ^a   Wang, Pengfei ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 84894050262     PISSN: 19457707     EISSN: 19457715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/mac.6.1.32     Document Type: Article

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