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Credit rationing or entrepreneurial risk aversion? An alternative explanation for the Evans and Jovanovic finding

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  • Cressy, Robert, 2000. "Credit rationing or entrepreneurial risk aversion? An alternative explanation for the Evans and Jovanovic finding," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 66(2), pages 235-240, February.
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