What drives foreign expansion of the top 100 multinational banks? The role of the credit reporting system

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 588-605

  Tsai, Hsiangping ^a   Chang, Yuanchen ^b   Hsiao, Pei Hsin ^a  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Credit bureaus; Credit information sharing; D82; F23; Foreign expansion; G21; Multinational banks

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651419746     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2010.05.016     Document Type: Article

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