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Historical Financing of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises
The authors focus on the economies of the North Atlantic Core during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and find that an impressive variety of local financial institutions emerged to supply the needs of SMEs wherever there was sufficient demand for their services.
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http://www.nber.org/papers/W11695