Mergers among German Cooperative Banks: A Panel-based Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Small Business Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 273-286

  Lang, Günter ^a   Welzel, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 0042377797     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008130918565     Document Type: Article

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