Essays on Banking, Institutions, and Macroeconomic Activity

This thesis investigates the role of institutions in shaping macroeconomic phenomena. The first two chapters focus on financial institutions, formalizing interactions between information and competition in frictional credit markets and providing novel predictions for output and efficiency. The third...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hachem, Kinda
Other Authors: Shi, Shouyong
Language:en_ca
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31774