Financial development and the opacity of banks

Economics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 6-10

  Wagner, Wolf ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asset substitution; Financial development; Opaque assets

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548127246     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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