Benefits from a changing payment technology in European banking

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1631-1652

  Humphrey, David ^a   Willesson, Magnus ^b   Bergendahl, Göran ^b   Lindblom, Ted ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Europe; Payments; Technical change

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646386947     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2005.09.009     Document Type: Article

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