Cole, Rebel A.; Fenn, George W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
This article examines the role of commercial real estate investments in the banking crisis of 1985-92, an unprecedented … period during which more than 1,300 banks failed. Bank failures are fundamentally important because of the unique role played … during this period. First, commercial real estate was only a factor in the bank failures of 1988-92. Second, construction …