Entrepreneurial learning and the existence of credit markets

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-46

  Parker, Simon C ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Credit markets; Learning by doing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845589572     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2004.12.005     Document Type: Article

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