The subprime panic

European Financial Management

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-46

  Gorton, Gary ^a  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

ABX index; Banking panic; Credit crisis; Credit derivatives; Securitisation; Subprime mortgages

Indexed keywords

EID: 58049178456     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2008.00473.x     Document Type: Article

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