Investment-cash flow sensitivities, credit rationing and financing constraints in small and medium-sized firms

Small Business Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 467-497

  Becchetti, Leonardo ^a   Castelli, Annalisa ^a   Hasan, Iftekhar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Credit rationing; Financing constraints; Investment cash flow sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859951182     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-008-9167-1     Document Type: Article

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