Scale economies, cost efficiencies, and technological change in federal reserve payments processing

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1004-1039

  Bauer, Paul W ^a   Ferrier, Gary D ^a  

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EID: 0039470577     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2077938     Document Type: Article

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