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Financial Contracts and Occupational Choice

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  • Alexander Karaivanov, 2003. "Financial Contracts and Occupational Choice," Computing in Economics and Finance 2003 25, Society for Computational Economics.
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    Development; Occupational Choice; Moral Hazard; Financial Intermediation; Maximum Likelihood Estimation;
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    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
    • G20 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - General
    • E2 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment

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