Institutions and bank behavior: Legal environment, legal perception, and the composition of bank lending

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 965-984

  Haselmann, Rainer ^a   Wachtel, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bank lending; Collateral; Law and finance; Loan portfolio

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955129312     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: 15384616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2010.00316.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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