Congressional hearings and government reports have asserted that emerging high-growth firms in the US are starved for capital. This study argues that calls for increased federal intervention, using public monies to plug capital gaps to plug capital gaps, are unjustified

Ten years into the transition, newly emerging private enterprises in transition economies, usually described as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the international context, have come to play an increasingly important role as the driving engines of economic growth and employment...