Big business stability and economic growth: Is what's good for General Motors good for America?

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 83-108

  Fogel, Kathy ^a   Morck, Randall ^b,c   Yeung, Bernard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business stability; Creative destruction; Economic growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 47849122079     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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