Institutional shrinkage: The deviant case of Swiss banking secrecy

Regulation and Governance

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 242-259

  Steinlin, Simon ^a   Trampusch, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Banking regulation; Deviant case study; Institutional change; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861885142     PISSN: 17485983     EISSN: 17485991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5991.2012.01128.x     Document Type: Article

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