Some evidence of the external financing costs of new technology-based firms in Canada

Venture Capital

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 227-252

  Carpentier, Cécile ^a   Suret, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

External financing cost; Financing; Information asymmetry; New technology based firms; Small business

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745818366     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691060600748421     Document Type: Article

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