Creditor rights, information sharing, and bank risk taking

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 485-512

  Houston, Joel F ^a   Lin, Chen ^b   Lin, Ping ^c   Ma, Yue ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bank risk taking; Creditor rights; Economic growth; Financial crisis; Information sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952885461     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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