Cost efficiency, environmental influences and UK credit unions, 1991 to 2001

Managerial Finance

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 72-86

  McKillop, Donal G ^a   Colin Glass, J ^b   Ward, Ann Marie ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Credit unions stochastic frontier; Deprivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846581012     PISSN: 03074358     EISSN: 17587743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074350510769974     Document Type: Article

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