Growth versus Margins: Destabilizing Consequences of Giving the Stock Market What It Wants

Journal of Finance

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1025-1058

  Aghion, Philippe ^a   Stein, Jeremy C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 43649105568     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: 15406261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2008.01351.x     Document Type: Article

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