Cost efficiency among credit card banks

Journal of Economics and Business

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 595-614

  Kulasekaran, Sivakumar ^a   Shaffer, Sherrill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost efficiency; Credit card banks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036846750     PISSN: 00129933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0148-6195(02)00117-0     Document Type: Article

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