Scale economies, scope economies, and technical change in federal reserve payment processing

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 943-958

  Adams, Robert M ^a   Bauer, Paul W ^a,b   Sickles, Robin C ^a,c  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial institutions; Productivity; Scale economies; Scope economies; Technical change

Indexed keywords

EID: 7444235493     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2004.0070     Document Type: Review

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