Internet start-ups access to the bank loan market: Evidence from Italy

Applied Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 293-305

  Grilli, Luca ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROVISION; DEBT; E-COMMERCE; LENDING BEHAVIOR;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 13244254184     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684042000295331     Document Type: Article

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