Credit rationing or entrepreneurial risk aversion? A comment
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Cressy (2000) argues that the positive correlation between assets and the rate of business startups is due to DARA preferences. We show however that the required property is prudence, and prudence is consistent with DARA, IARA or CARA. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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