Corporate risk-return relations: Returns variability versus downside risk

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 91-122

  Miller, Kent D ^a   Leiblein, Michael J ^a  

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EID: 0030306779     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/256632     Document Type: Article

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