Risk premium and market power in credit markets

Economics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 450-456

  Oliver, Alfredo Martín ^a   Fumás, Vicente Salas ^b   Saurina, Jesús ^a  

^a BANCO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Credit markets; Lerner index; Market power

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751177344     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2006.06.021     Document Type: Article

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