Causes of banking crises: Deregulation, credit booms and asset bubbles, then and now

International Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 24, Issue , 2012, Pages 270-294

  Roy, Saktinil ^a   Kemme, David M ^b  

^a ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Banking crisis; Logit; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860825602     PISSN: 10590560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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