Orange county bankruptcy: Financial contagion in the municipal bond and bank equity markets

Financial Review

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 293-315

  Halstead, John M ^a   Hegde, Shantaram ^b   Klein, Linda Schmid ^b  

^a SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bank equity; Contagion; Derivatives; Fixed income; G2 H3 K2; Municipal financing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040394164     PISSN: 07328516     EISSN: 15406288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0732-8516.2004.00077.x     Document Type: Article

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