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Italian bank crisis: flexible application of BRRD rules, or a bailout in disguise?

Review of Economic Perspectives
Volume 20 (2020): Issue 2 (June 2020)
By: Jan Famfollet and  Eliška Sankotová  
Open Access
|Jun 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/revecp-2020-0006 | Journal eISSN: 1804-1663 | Journal ISSN: 1213-2446
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Language: English
Page range: 109 - 135
Submitted on: Nov 26, 2019
Accepted on: Apr 9, 2020
Published on: Jun 22, 2020
Published by: Mendel University in Brno
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
banking union,
banking supervision,
BRRD,
bail-in,
bailout,
precautionary recapitalisation,
non-performing loans,
Italian banking sector
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Economic theory, systems and structures

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