Financial Theory

The Review of Economic Studies Ltd.

An Incomplete Contracts Approach to Financial Contracting Author(s): Philippe Aghion and Patrick Bolton Source: The Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Jul., 1992), pp. 473-494 Published by: The Review of Economic Studies Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2297860 Accessed: 27/10/2009 12:42

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An

Incomplete Approach

to

Contracts

Financial

Contracting

PHILIPPE AGHION The European Bank for Reconstructionand Development and DELTA, Paris and PATRICK BOLTON Laboratoire d'Econometrie de L'Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and...