Entrepreneurs' gender and financial constraints: Evidence from international data

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 270-286

  Muravyev, Alexander ^a,b,c   Talavera, Oleksandr ^d,e   Schäfer, Dorothea ^b,f  

^a IZA   (Germany)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e Kyiv School of Economics Ukraine   (Ukraine)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Entrepreneurship; Financial constraints; Gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349249368     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: 10957227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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