Forecasting the fragility of the banking and insurance sectors

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 807-818

  Bernoth, Kerstin ^a   Pick, Andreas ^b,c  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banking; Financial linkages; Financial stability; Insurances; Unobserved common factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951549872     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2010.10.024     Document Type: Article

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