The Advent of the Federal Reserve and the Efficiency of the Payments System: The Collection of Checks, 1915-1930

Explorations in Economic History

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 121-148

  Gilbert, R Alton ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Federal Reserve; payments system; efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041684627     PISSN: 00144983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exeh.2000.0736     Document Type: Article

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