Competitive bank pricing and adverse selection, with implications for testing the SCP hypothesis

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 633-647

  Shaffer, Sherrill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Structure conduct performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036764593     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1062-9769(01)00087-4     Document Type: Article

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