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Economic policy uncertainty, corporate diversification, and corporate investment

Zahid Jumaha NUST Business School, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, PakistanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Zahid Irshad Younasa NUST Business School, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, PakistanORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2947-8000
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Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryanb Department of Accounting and Financial Management, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Portsmouth;c Consultant in Economics and Finance, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1665-807X
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Pages 2732-2742 | Published online: 27 Jul 2022

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