Ability or finances as constraints on entrepreneurship? Evidence from survival rates in a natural experiment

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3684-3710

  Andersen, Steffen ^a   Nielsen, Kasper Meisner ^b  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 84869393130     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhs107     Document Type: Article

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