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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Recent Theoretical Work on the Soft Budget Constraint

  • Eric S. Maskin
American Economic Review
vol. 89, no. 2, May 1999
(pp. 421–425)
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Citation

Maskin, Eric, S. 1999. "Recent Theoretical Work on the Soft Budget Constraint." American Economic Review 89 (2): 421–425. DOI: 10.1257/aer.89.2.421

JEL Classification

  • D82 Asymmetric and Private Information
  • G32 Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure