The Asian financial crisis and investors' risk aversion

Asia-Pacific Financial Markets

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 181-205

  Nishiyama, Yasuo ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian financial crisis; Banks; Chow test; Relative risk aversion; Time varying parameter model

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548091513     PISSN: 13872834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10690-007-9041-1     Document Type: Article

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