Is free banking more prone to bank failures than regulated banking?

Cato Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-61

  Chu, Kam Hon ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

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