The Impact of the Business Environment On Young Firm Financing

This paper uses a dataset of more than 70,000 firms in over 100 countries to systematically study the use of different financing sources for new and young firms, in comparison to mature firms. The authors find that in all countries younger firms rely less on bank financing and more on informal finan...

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Main Author: Love, Inessa
Other Authors: Chavis, Larry W., Klapper, Leora F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C The World Bank 2010
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Collection: World Bank E-Library Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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