Small Firms in the 1990s

In the Fall of 1988 an international conference was held at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur Sozialforschung (WZB). This was the first conference devoted entirely to the subject of Small Business Economics. The present volume which is an outgrowth of that conference contains revised versions of papers which were presented at that conference. Most of the papers in this book grew out of research projects examining the role of small firms in national economies. We include papers from six countries exploiting twelve rich databases.