Determining management behaviour in European banking

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2427-2460

  Williams, Jonathan ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capitalisation; Credit risk; Loan loss provision; Optimal lags; Stochastic frontier analysis; X efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544330326     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2003.09.010     Document Type: Article

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