Diversification and the Risk-Return Trade-off
Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 March 1988
Raphael Amit, Joshua Livnat
Citations176
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The article presents information on a study which investigated the risk-return trade-off at the level of individual firms with both accounting and market-based measures of risk. The author describe...
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Economics, Econometrics and FinanceBusiness, Management and Accounting
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