Are competitive banking systems more stable?

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 711-734

  Schaeck, Klaus ^a   Cihak, Martin ^b   Wolfe, Simon ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banking competition; Market structure; Regulation; Systemic risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649095254     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2009.00228.x     Document Type: Article

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