International financial contagion: Why are Eastern Europes banks not failing when everybody elses are?

Economics of Transition

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 639-663

  Weller, Christian E ^a,b   Morzuch, Bernard ^c  

^a ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Banking crisis; Emerging economies; Financial liberalization; Transition

Indexed keywords

BANKING; FINANCIAL CRISIS; LIBERALIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 0033669772     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0351.00059     Document Type: Article

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