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Market Demand Curve for Common Stock and the Maximization of Market Value

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

G. A. Whitmore
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In this paper, a simple model of individual financial decision making is used (1) to construct the market demand curve for common stock, and (2) to question the appropriateness of market value maximization as the objective of corporate financial management.

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Research Article
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 1970 , pp. 105 - 114
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1970

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