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The Cost of Diversity: The Diversification Discount and Inefficient Investment

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RAGHURAM RAJAN
HENRI SERVAES
LUIGI ZINGALES

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Paper provided by Center for Research in Security Prices, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago in its series CRSP working papers with number 357.

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