Global rhetorics, national politics: Pursuing bank mergers in Canada

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Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 152-175

  Tickell, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; FINANCIAL MARKET; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

CANADA;

EID: 0034095126     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8330.00126     Document Type: Article

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