Reading the right signals and reading the signals right: IPE and the financial crisis of 2008

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1101-1131

  Katzenstein, Peter J ^a   Nelson, Stephen C ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

central banks; decision making; financial crisis; financial markets; risk; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889576100     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2013.804854     Document Type: Article

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