Causes of the financial crisis: Risk misperception, policy mistakes, and banks' bounded rationality

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-126

  Rötheli, Tobias F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Financial crisis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951063191     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2010.02.016     Document Type: Article

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