Activist Funds, Leverage, and Procyclicality
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- Burkart, Mike & Dasgupta, Amil, 2015. "Activist funds, leverage, and procyclicality," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 65095, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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