Political patronage in Ukrainian banking

Economics of Transition

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 537-557

  Baum, Christopher F ^a,b   Caglayan, Mustafa ^c   Schäfer, Dorothea ^b   Talavera, Oleksandr ^d,e  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e Kyiv School of Economics Ukraine   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Banking; Capitalization; Interest rate margin; Political patronage; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CAPITALISM; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INTEREST RATE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLITICAL INTEGRATION;

EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UKRAINE;

EID: 45349100037     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: 14680351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.2008.00331.x     Document Type: Article

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