The rise in firm-level volatility: Causes and consequences

NBER Macroeconomics Annual

Volumn 20, Issue , 2005, Pages 167-201

  Comin, Diego ^a   Philippon, Thomas ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33646803471     PISSN: 08893365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1086/ma.20.3585419     Document Type: Article

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