Wall Street and Main Street: What Contributes to the Rise in the Highest Incomes?

Steven N. Kaplan & Joshua Rauh
Published Date
Copyright 2010
DOI 10.1093/rfs/hhp006
Book: Corporate Governance
Book editor: Michael Weisbach
PUBLISHER: The Review of Financial Studies, vol. 23, no. 3

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