Benchmarks of the efficiency of bank branches

Interfaces

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 37-51

  Zenios, Christiana V ^a   Zenios, Stavros A ^b   Agathocleous, Kostas ^c   Soteriou, Andreas C ^c  

^a Bank of Cyprus   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c NONE

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EID: 0040113091     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.29.3.37     Document Type: Article

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