Working Paper

Optimal employment of scale economies in the Federal Reserve's currency infrastructure


Abstract: Given estimates of shipping costs and scale economies for high-speed currency sorting, the authors investigate whether the Federal Reserve might lower its costs by reallocating the volume of sorting among its processing sites.

Keywords: Money; Federal Reserve banks - Costs;

https://doi.org/10.26509/frbc-wp-199810

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Part of Series: Working Papers (Old Series)

Publication Date: 1998

Number: 9810