Overview
- Examines the political roots of banking crises in Spain
- Analyses the process of political bargains in which parties with different interests come together to form coalitions that determine banks’ outcomes
- Links banking crises to the country’s larger institutional malaise
- Argues that Spanish banks’ political connections are ultimately responsible for the sector’s skewed lending practices
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Book Title: Why Banks Fail
Book Subtitle: The Political Roots of Banking Crises in Spain
Authors: Sebastián Royo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53228-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95990-7Published: 28 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95991-4Published: 28 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53228-2Published: 27 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 344
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary