The productivity of the banking sector: Integrating financial and production approaches to measuring financial service output

Canadian Journal of Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 547-569

  Fixler, Dennis ^a   Zieschang, Kimberly ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; FINANCIAL SERVICES; PRODUCTIVITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032869767     PISSN: 00084085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/136435     Document Type: Article

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