Can the Financial Markets Privately Regulate Risk? The Development of Derivatives Clearinghouses and Recent Over-the-Counter Innovations

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 590-618

  Kroszner, Randall S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 1842711851     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2601077     Document Type: Article

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