Profit Margins, Adjustment Costs and the Business Cycle: An Application to Spanish Manufacturing Firms

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-72

  Fariñas, José C ^a   Huergo, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

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EID: 0141461775     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0084.00041     Document Type: Article

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