Banks' riskiness over the business cycle: A panel analysis on Italian intermediaries

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 119-138

  Quagliariello, Mario ^a  

^a BANK OF ITALY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; BUSINESS CYCLE; DEBT; ECONOMETRICS; MACROECONOMICS; PANEL DATA; RISK;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845421598     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100500486501     Document Type: Article

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