Productivity losses from financial frictions: Can self-financing undo capital misallocation?

American Economic Review

Volumn 104, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3186-3221

  Moll, Benjamin ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84905691101     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: 19447981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.10.3186     Document Type: Review

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