Is there a tradeoff between bank competition and financial fragility?

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1853-1873

  Koskela, Erkki ^a   Stenbacka, Rune ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bank competition; Financial fragility; G21; G33; G34

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008748536     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4266(99)00120-X     Document Type: Article

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