Strategic loan defaults and coordination: An experimental analysis

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 747-760

  Trautmann, Stefan T ^a   Vlahu, Razvan ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contagion; Credit market; Loss aversion; Risk dominance; Strategic default

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872268878     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2012.10.019     Document Type: Article

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