Financial costs, operating costs, and specialization of Spanish banking firms as distribution dynamics

Applied Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 2165-2176

  Tortosa Ausina, Emili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; COST; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; FINANCE; PRICE DYNAMICS; SPECIALIZATION;

SPAIN;

EID: 0038461014     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840210138400     Document Type: Article

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