Are the determinants of capital structure country or firm specific?

Small Business Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 319-333

  Psillaki, Maria ^a   Daskalakis, Nikolaos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Capital structure; SME financing

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350622452     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-008-9103-4     Document Type: Article

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