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Legitimacy Needs as Drivers of Business Exit

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The initial sample consists of all firms that are listed at the German Stock Exchange in the CDAX-index. The CD AX is a composite index which includes the shares of all domestic companies listed in Prime Standard and General Standard (cf. Figure 8). It represents the German equity market in its entirety, i.e., all companies listed on FWB Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse (Frankfurt Stock Exchange). All in all, 678 firms were identified.

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