Explaining the Diversification Discount
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- 1 January 2001
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- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Diversified firms trade at a discount relative to similar single-segment firms. We argue in this paper that this observed discount is not per se evidence that dKeywords
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