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Rajnish Mehra - Central bank research hub

Papers by year: All | 2011 | 2007

Costly Financial Intermediation in Neoclassical Growth Theory

by Rajnish Mehra , Edward C. Prescott and Facundo Piguillem

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Working Papers (Paper: WP685, 05.04.2011)

Intermediated Quantities and Returns

by Facundo Piguillem , Edward C. Prescott and Rajnish Mehra

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Working Papers (Paper: WP655, 28.09.2007)

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