Using Subordinated Debt to Monitor Bank Holding Companies: Is it Feasible?

Journal of Financial Services Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 147-187

  Hancock, Diana ^a   Kwast, Myron L ^a  

^a Mail Stop #153 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Banks; Market discipline; Subordinated debt; Systematic risk factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035602664     PISSN: 09208550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012460007340     Document Type: Article

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