Mortgage banking cost structure: resolving an enigma

Journal of Economics and Business

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 219-234

  Rossi, Clifford V ^a  

^a FREDDIE MAC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost structure; Mortgage banks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012272111     PISSN: 00129933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0148-6195(97)00079-9     Document Type: Article

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