Skew and heavy-tail effects on firm performance

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1721-1740

  Makino, Shige ^a   Chan, Christine M ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

analysis of outliers; heavy tail effects; non normal distribution; skew effect; variance centered view

Indexed keywords

MANAGERS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANALYSIS OF OUTLIERS; HEAVY-TAILS; NON-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SKEW EFFECT; VARIANCE-CENTERED VIEW;

STATISTICS;

EID: 85015402815     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2632     Document Type: Article

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