Mergers as reallocation

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 765-776

  Jovanovic, Boyan ^a   Rousseau, Peter L ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 55549092072     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest.90.4.765     Document Type: Article

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