Efficiency, Bond of Association and Exit Patterns in Credit Unions: Australian Evidence

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-23

  Brown, Rayna ^a   Brown, Rob ^b   O'Connor, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0348063180     PISSN: 13704788     EISSN: 14678292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8292.00097     Document Type: Article

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