No more credit to Europe? Cross-border bank lending, financial integration, and the rebirth of the national scale as a credit scorecard

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2399-2419

  Bassens, David ^a   van Meeteren, Michiel ^b   Derudder, Ben ^b   Witlox, Frank ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Capital flows; Eurozone crisis; Financial geography; International bank lending; Political economy

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CAPITAL FLOW; FINANCIAL MARKET; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; LENDING BEHAVIOR; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84886778530     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a4618     Document Type: Article

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