The banking exposure to international lending: Regional differences or common fundamentals?

Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 187-214

  Kalotychou, Elena ^a   Staikouras, Sotiris K ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

International credit exposure; Panel logit; Region specific estimators; Sovereign debt crises

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644548294     PISSN: 09638008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0963-8008.2005.00103.x     Document Type: Review

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