Banks' risk race: A signaling explanation

International Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 784-791

  Besancenot, Damien ^a   Vranceanu, Radu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Banking sector; Imperfect information; Risk strategy; Signaling; The Great Recession

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957540928     PISSN: 10590560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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