The Banking Spread and the Resource Cost of Capital

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
92
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
G21, F30, F34, O4, E43, E5
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

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