Estimates of Scale and Cost Efficiency for Federal Reserve Currency Operations
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by James Bohn, Diana Hancock, and Paul Bauer James Bohn is an associate at the Brattle Group, in Cambridge, Mass., Diana Hancock is the chief of monetary and financial studies at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Paul Bauer is an economic advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The authors thank Jon Cameron, Eric Severin-Lossin, and James Thomson for their valuable comments and suggestions. All errors remain those of the authors.
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