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Commentary: International Competitiveness of U.S. Futures Exchanges

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In this commentary I am not going to disagree with the “Father of Finance” (and my dissertation advisor to boot). Instead I will make a few comments on Merton Miller’s article and then develop in somewhat more depth two issues raised in it.

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Marvin H. Kosters Allan H. Meltzer

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Stoll, H.R. (1990). Commentary: International Competitiveness of U.S. Futures Exchanges . In: Kosters, M.H., Meltzer, A.H. (eds) International Competitiveness in Financial Services. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3876-5_12

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