The determinants of bank capital structure

Review of Finance

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 587-622

  Gropp, Reint ^a   Heider, Florian ^b  

^a Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

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EID: 77958614323     PISSN: 15723097     EISSN: 1573692X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rof/rfp030     Document Type: Article

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