Uncertainty and growth of the firm

Small Business Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 381-391

  Lensink, Robert ^a   Van Steen, Paul ^b   Sterken, Elmer ^a  

^a Department of Economics ^*  (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Firm investment; Firm size; Gibrats law; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844463850     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-005-7121-z     Document Type: Review

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