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George J. Benston, Gerald A. Hanweck, David B. Humphrey, Scale Economies in Banking: A Restructuring and Reassessment, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 14, No. 4, Part 1 (Nov., 1982), pp. 435-456
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