Parliamentary election cycles and the Turkish banking sector

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2709-2719

  Baum, Christopher F ^a,b   Caglayan, Mustafa ^c   Talavera, Oleksandr ^d  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Domestic banks; Elections; Foreign owned banks; Interest rate margin; Loans; State banks

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955926349     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2010.05.013     Document Type: Article

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