Strategic management of cost efficiencies in networks: Cross-country evidence on european branch banking

European Financial Management

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 333-360

  Hensel, Nayantara D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost efficiencies; European banking; F23; F36; G21; L10; L21; L89; Market structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 30644460869     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-036X.00224     Document Type: Article

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