Did Pension Plan Accounting Contribute to a Stock Market Bubble?

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Volumn , Issue 1, 2003, Pages 323-371

  Coronado, Julia Lynn ^a   Sharpe, Steven A ^a   Warshawsky, Mark J ^a  

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