Success of start-up firms: The role of financial constraints

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 25-64

  Stucki, Tobias ^a  

^a KOF SWISS ECONOMIC INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS CYCLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; PROFITABILITY;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84892519004     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtt008     Document Type: Article

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