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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Townsend, Robert, Urzula, Sergio S.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge University Press 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51038
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1528-8102