Why Firms Diversify: An Empirical Examination
Preprint
- 1 January 2000
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
There is substantial evidence that the market placed a lower value on diversified than specialized firms during the 1980's (Lang and Stulz (1994) and Berger andKeywords
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