Interest rate pass-through and financial crises: Do switching regimes matter? The case of Argentina

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 77-94

  Humala, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; FINANCIAL CRISIS; INTEREST RATE; LENDING BEHAVIOR;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 12844259546     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0960310042000297908     Document Type: Article

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