Explaining time to bank failure in Colombia during the financial crisis of the late 1990s

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
400
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
G21, G23
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy
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