Do country or firm factors explain capital structure? Evidence from SMEs in France and Greece

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 87-97

  Daskalakis, Nikolaos ^a   Psillaki, Maria ^b  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; DEBT; FINANCIAL MARKET; GROWTH RATE; PANEL DATA; PROFITABILITY; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 36749088227     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100601018864     Document Type: Article

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