When are commercial loans secured?

Financial Review

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-99

  Gonas, John S ^a   Highfield, Michael J ^b   Mullineaux, Donald J ^c  

^a BELMONT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collateral; Credit risk; G20; G21; G28; Information asymmetry; Moral hazard; Secured loans

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845340550     PISSN: 07328516     EISSN: 15406288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0732-8516.2004.00068.x     Document Type: Article

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