Financial Liberalization, Debt Mismatch, Allocative Efficiency, and Growth
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1945-7707,1945-7715
DOI: 10.1257/mac.20130190