Theories of soft budget constraints and the analysis of banking crises

Economics of Transition

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-100

  Mitchell, Janet ^a  

^a FACULTÉS UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LOUIS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bad debts; Banking crises; Soft budget constraints

Indexed keywords

BANKING; DEBT; FINANCIAL CRISIS;

EID: 0034093707     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0351.00036     Document Type: Article

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