Bank Branch Geographic Location Patterns in Spain: Some Implications for Financial Exclusion

Growth and Change

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 505-543

  Alamá, Luisa ^a   Tortosa Ausina, Emili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; ECONOMIC GROWTH; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SPAIN;

EID: 84865336523     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2012.00596.x     Document Type: Article

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