Firm growth and liquidity constraints: A dynamic analysis

Small Business Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 139-156

  Oliveira, Blandina ^a   Fortunato, Adelino ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Firm growth; Firm size; GMM estimator; Liquidity constraints; Panel data

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845587024     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-006-0006-y     Document Type: Article

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