Who gets the credit? and does it matter? Household vs. firm lending across countries

B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Beck, Thorsten ^a   Büyükkarabacak, Berrak ^b   Rioja, Felix K ^b   Valev, Neven T ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

economic growth; financial intermediation; firm credit; household credit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907664560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/1935-1690.2262     Document Type: Review

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