Does the Creative Business Promotion Law enhance SMEs' capital investments? Evidence from a panel dataset of unlisted SMEs in Japan

Japan and the World Economy

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 395-406

  Harada, Nobuyuki ^a   Honjo, Yuji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capital investment; Creative Business Promotion Law; Marginal q; SME

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844537832     PISSN: 09221425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2004.05.001     Document Type: Article

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