A specialized inventory problem in banks: Optimizing retail sweeps

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 285-295

  Nair, Suresh K ^a   Anderson, Richard G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Regulation D; Required reserves; Retail banking; Stochastic dynamic programming; Sweeps

Indexed keywords

EID: 48249101326     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3401/poms.1080.0028     Document Type: Article

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