Does "Skin in the Game" Reduce Risk Taking? Leverage, Liability, and the Long-run Consequences of the New Deal Banking Reforms

Kris James Mitchener & Gary Richardson
Published Date
Copyright 2013
DOI 10.1016/j.eeh.2013.06.002
CONFERENCE HELD July 26-27, 2012
Book: The Microeconomics of New Deal Policy
Book organizer: Price Fishback
PUBLISHER: Elsevier, Explorations in Economic History, 50(4)

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Does "Skin in the Game" Reduce Risk Taking? Leverage, Liability and the Long-Run Consequences of New Deal Banking Reforms
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