Ughetto, Elisa; Vezzulli, Andrea - In: International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance 3 (2011) 4, pp. 294-319
It is widely acknowledged that firms performing R&D investments are very likely to undergo financial constraints due to their specific characteristics, which make external debt an imperfect substitute for internal finance, especially for small sized enterprises (Carpenter and Petersen, 2002; Hall,...