Determinants of cross-border bank acquisitions in transition economies

Economics of Transition

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 671-696

  Poghosyan, Tigran ^a   de Haan, Jakob ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK   (Netherlands)

^c CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross border bank acquisitions; Multilevel mixed effects logit model; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

BANKING; ECONOMIC REFORM; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOGIT ANALYSIS; MICROECONOMICS; MODELING; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

EID: 77955755154     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: 14680351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.2010.00393.x     Document Type: Article

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