The Cost of Political Connections

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Review of Finance

• Publication date

  2018-05-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1093/ROF/RFY008
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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