Subjective perceptions of financing constraints: How well do they reflect credit market conditions?

Emerging Markets Review

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 98-105

  Bouton, Lawrence ^a   Tiongson, Erwin R ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b Asian Institute of Management   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Access to finance; Credit constraint; Enterprise surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950922363     PISSN: 15660141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ememar.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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