Bank-based or market-based financial systems: Which is better?

Journal of Financial Intermediation

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 398-428

  Levine, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Banks; Economic growth; Law; Stock markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036822431     PISSN: 10429573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfin.2002.0341     Document Type: Review

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