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Volume 7, 2015

Entrepreneurship and Financial Frictions: A Macrodevelopment Perspective

Abstract

We review both the theoretical and empirical literature on entrepreneurship and financial frictions, with an emphasis on the heterogeneous and dynamic microlevel implications of financial frictions for macrodevelopment.

Keyword(s): firm growth, misallocation, productivity
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Entrepreneurship and Financial Frictions: A Macrodevelopment Perspective
Annual Review of Economics 7, 409 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080614-115348
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