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Comparing financial systems.

Bert Scholtens
- 01 Jan 2000 - 
- Vol. 53, Iss: 3, pp 387-388
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This article is published in Kyklos.The article was published on 2000-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 603 citations till now.

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