Slippery slopes of stress: Ordered failure events in German banking

Journal of Financial Stability

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 132-148

  Kick, Thomas ^a   Koetter, Michael ^a,b,c  

^a DEUTSCHE BUNDESBANK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bank failure; Distress; Efficiency; Generalized ordered logit; Germany

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347359799     PISSN: 15723089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfs.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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