Financial conglomeration: Efficiency, productivity and strategic drive

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 687-696

  Casu, Barbara ^a   Girardone, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; FINANCIAL SERVICES; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFITABILITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 3142773467     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0960310042000243529     Document Type: Article

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