On the usefulness of tax incentives for informal investors

Venture Capital

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-22

  Carpentier, Cécile ^a   Suret, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Financing; Informal investors; Public policy; Small business; Tax incentives

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751511747     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691060600996673     Document Type: Article

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