Financial-firm production of monetary services: A generalized symmetric barnett variable-profit-function approach

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 33-46

  Barnet, William A ^a   Harm, Jeong Ho ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Export Import Bank of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Financial intermediation; Flexible functional forms; Monetary aggregation; Production

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344479433     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.1994.10509989     Document Type: Article

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