Offshore financial centres: Parasites or symbionts?

Economic Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 523, 2007, Pages 1310-1335

  Rose, Andrew K ^a   Spiegel, Mark M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; OFFSHORE FINANCE;

EID: 34848840910     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02084.x     Document Type: Article

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