Credit ratings failures and policy options

Economic Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 62, 2010, Pages 401-431

  Pagano, Marco ^a   Volpin, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROVISION; FINANCIAL CRISIS; FINANCIAL MARKET; FINANCIAL POLICY; INFLATION;

EID: 77953060564     PISSN: 02664658     EISSN: 14680327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0327.2010.00245.x     Document Type: Article

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