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On Uneven Ground

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  • Christian Weller
  • Luke Reidenbach

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The economic recovery after the Great Recession highlighted a continuous divergence between soaring profits and lagging investment. The policy goals the authors discuss aim to find a better economic balance between short-run and long-run goals by defining long-term performance measures and finding a better balance in the incentives of short-run and long-run-oriented corporate stakeholders.

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  • Christian Weller & Luke Reidenbach, 2011. "On Uneven Ground," Challenge, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(3), pages 5-37.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:challe:v:54:y:2011:i:3:p:5-37
    DOI: 10.2753/0577-5132540301
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