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Small Business Economics (2006) 27: 439-440 CONTENTS OF VOLUME Vol. 27, No.1, August 2006 Special Issue on: Nascent Entrepreneurship Guest Editor: Simon C. Parker PETER S. JOHNSON, SIMON C. PARKER and FRITS WIJBENGA / Nascent Entrepreneurship Research: Achievements and Opportunities PHILLIP H. KIM, HOWARD E. ALDRICH and LISA A. KEISTER / Access (Not) Denied: The Impact of Financial, Human, and Cultural Capital on Entrepreneurial Entry in the United States JIANWEN LIAO and WILLIAM B. GARTNER / The Effects of Pre-venture Plan Timing and Perceived Environmental Uncertainty on the Persistence of Emerging Firms ' 23-40 P. MUELLER / Entrepreneurship in the Region: Breeding Ground for Nascent Entrepreneurs? 41-58 P. KOLLINGER and M. MINNITI / Not for Lack of Trying: American Entrepreneurship in Black and White 59-79 SIMON C. PARKER and YACINE BELGHITAR / What Happens to Nascent Entrepreneurs? An Econometric Analysis of the PSED 81-101 Vol. 27, Nos.2-3, Sep/Oct 2006 OLGA MARIA RODRIGUEZ-RODRIGUEZ / Trade Credit in Small and Medium Size Firms: An Application of the System Estimator With Panel Data 103-126 TIMO BAAS and MECHTHILD SCHROOTEN / Relationship Banking and SMEs: A Theoretical Analysis 127-137 BLANDINA OLIVEIRA and ADELINO FORTUNATO / Firm Growth: and Liquidity Constraints: A Dynamic Analysis 139-156 CHARLES OU and GEORGE W. HAYNES / Acquisition of Additional Equity Capital by Small Firms — Findings from the National Survey of Small Business Finances 157-168 JOHN HUTCHINSON and ANA XAVIER / Comparing the Impact of Credit Constraints on the . Growth of SMEs in a Transition Country with an Established Market Economy 169-179 NOBUYA FUKUGAWA / Determining Factors in Innovation of Small Firm Networks: A case of Cross Industry Groups in Japan 181-193 440 Contents of Volume VALENTINA HARTARSKA and CLAUDIO GONZALEZ-VEGA / What Affects New and Established Firms’ Expansion? Evidence from Small Firms in Russia 195-206 RIAN BEISE-ZEE and CHRISTIAN RAMMER /L ocal User-Producer Interaction in Innovation and Export Performance of Firms HUBERT OOGHE, ELISABETH VAN LAERE and TINE DE LANGHE / Are Acquisitions Worthwhile? An Empirical Study of the Post-Acquisition Performance of Privately Held Belgian Companies 223-243 MICHAEL FRITSCH and ANTJE WEYH / How Large are the Direct Employment Effects of New Businesses? An Empirical Investigation for West Germany 245-260 JUIN-JEN CHANG / Profit Sharing, Risk Sharing, and Firm Size: Implications of Efficiency Wages 261-273 BURAK GUNALP and SEYIT MUMIN CILASUN / Determinants of Entry in Turkish Manufacturing Industries : Vol. 27, Nos.4-5, Nov/Dec 2006 YUJI HONJO and NOBUYUKI HARADA / SME Policy, Financial Structure and Firm Growth: Evidence From Japan 289-300 LUISITO BERTINELLI, OLIVIER CARDI, TEOQMAN PAMUKCU and ERIC STROBL / The Evolution of the Distribution of Plant Size: Evidence from Luxemburg 301-311 SU-WAN WANG / Determinants of New Firm Formation in Taiwan 313-321 ARI HYYTINEN and LOTTA VAANANEN / Where Do Financial Constraints Originate from? An Empirical Analysis of Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in Capital Markets MINET SCHINDEHUTTE, MICHAEL MORRIS and JEFFREY ALLEN / Beyond Achievement: Entrepreneurship as Extreme Experience 349-368 GRACE 0. KIM / Do Equally Owned Small Businesses Have Equal Access to Credit? 369-386 ROBERT E. CARPENTER and LAURA RONDI / Going Public to Grow? Evidence from a Panel of Italian Firms 387-407 ARISTEIDIS SAMITAS, DIMITRIS KENOURGIOS and NICK KONSTANTOPOULOS / The Small Business Capital Market Behavior in Athens Stock Exchange 409-417 BENSON HONIG, MIRI LERNER and YOEL RABAN /S ocial Capital and the Linkages cf High- Tech Companies to the Military Defense System: Is there a Signaling Mechanism? 419-437 Contents of Volume 27 439-440 eeI be