Viewpoint: Empirical research on firms' boundaries

Canadian Journal of Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 341-359

  Hubbard, Thomas N ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC THEORY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FIRM SIZE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 47749088995     PISSN: 00084085     EISSN: 15405982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2008.00466.x     Document Type: Article

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