Measuring the Impact of Financial Intermediation: Linking Contract Theory to Econometric Policy Evaluation

We study the impact that financial intermediation can have on productivity through the alleviation of credit constraints in occupation choice and/or an improved allocation of risk, using both static and dynamic structural models as well as reduced-form OLS and IV regressions. Our goal in this paper...

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Main Authors: Townsend, Robert (Contributor), Urzula, Sergio S. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press, 2010-01-29T18:45:30Z.
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