The efficiency cost of market power in the banking industry: A test of the "quiet life" and related hypotheses

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 454-465

  Berger, Allen N ^a   Hannan, Timothy H ^a  

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EID: 0032382856     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465398557555     Document Type: Article

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