Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Causes of U.S. Commercial Bank Failures This Time Around

Journal of Financial Services Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 5-29

  Cole, Rebel A ^a   White, Lawrence J ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bank; Bank failure; CAMELS; Commercial real estate; FDIC; Financial crisis; Mortgage backed security; Risk weights; Risk based capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864304719     PISSN: 09208550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10693-011-0116-9     Document Type: Article

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