Finance, firm size, and growth

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1379-1405

  Beck, Thorsten ^a   Demirguc Kunt, Asli ^a   Laeven, Luc ^b   Levine, Ross ^c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b European Corporate Governance Institute   (Belgium)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Financial development; Firm size

Indexed keywords

EID: 52649178374     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2008.00164.x     Document Type: Article

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