Banks as firms' blockholders: A study in Spain

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 425-438

  Giné, Josep A Tribó ^a   Martínez, María José Casasola ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; DATA SET; ECONOMIC STRUCTURE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PANEL DATA;

SPAIN;

EID: 76549083196     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100903459758     Document Type: Article

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