How Unique are US-Banks? The Role of Banks in Five Major Financial Systems

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 221, Issue 5-6, 2001, Pages 592-619

  Hackethal, Andreas ^a  

^a Wilhelm Merton Chair Intl B   (Germany)

Author keywords

(Dis )intermediation; Bank based financial system; Capital market based financial system; Securitisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347037813     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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