Layoffs, Top Executive Pay, and Firm Performance

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 711-723

  Hallock, Kevin F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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