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On the differing pattern of corporate diversification across economies

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In this article, the authors describe a model which helps explain the difference in the observed pattern of corporate diversification across economies, which they call "corporate diversification cross-regions".
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Conglomerates, that is, firms which have diversified into industries having little in common in terms of markets, technologies, or skills, occupy only a relatively minor position among large firms in the U.S., but they dominate many other economies, particularly the developing ones in Asia. This paper describes a model which helps explain this difference in the observed pattern of corporate diversification across economies.

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