Increasingly policymakers are looking to the small business sector as a potential engine of economic growth. Policies to promote small businesses include tax relief, direct subsidies, and indirect subsidies through government lending programs. Encouraging lending to small business is the primary policy objective of the Small Business Administration (SBA) loan-guarantee program. Using a panel data set of SBA-guaranteed loans we assess whether SBA-guaranteed lending has an observable impact on local and regional economic performance.Small business ; Economic development ; Loans ; Small Business Administration
Small business is the economic engine of every community and is particularly critical for low income...
Small businesses are vital to the U.S. economy. The nation's 29.6 million small businesses generated...
In an attempt to support entrepreneurs, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) offers loans to...
Increasingly, policymakers are looking to the small business sector as a potential engine of economi...
Over the last 10 years, the Small Business Administration has been responsible for well over $100 bi...
SBA guaranteed-lending programs are one of many government-sponsored market interventions aimed at p...
Governments of most countries seek to encourage Small and Medium Sized Enterprise (SME) growth and t...
One of the most important roles commercial banks perform is to lend to small businesses. Such lendin...
This paper assesses the potential impact of securitization in improving small businesses’ access to ...
Small businesses rely on banks for credit more than do large businesses. As a result, small business...
An evaluation of several proposals that would promote additional lending to the small business secto...
Conventional wisdom suggests that small businesses are innovative engines of Schumpetarian growth. H...
Adequate credit availability for small businesses is an important public policy issue because small ...
Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Due to r...
sufficient amounts of credit for small- and medium-sized businesses, at affordable inter-est rates, ...
Small business is the economic engine of every community and is particularly critical for low income...
Small businesses are vital to the U.S. economy. The nation's 29.6 million small businesses generated...
In an attempt to support entrepreneurs, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) offers loans to...
Increasingly, policymakers are looking to the small business sector as a potential engine of economi...
Over the last 10 years, the Small Business Administration has been responsible for well over $100 bi...
SBA guaranteed-lending programs are one of many government-sponsored market interventions aimed at p...
Governments of most countries seek to encourage Small and Medium Sized Enterprise (SME) growth and t...
One of the most important roles commercial banks perform is to lend to small businesses. Such lendin...
This paper assesses the potential impact of securitization in improving small businesses’ access to ...
Small businesses rely on banks for credit more than do large businesses. As a result, small business...
An evaluation of several proposals that would promote additional lending to the small business secto...
Conventional wisdom suggests that small businesses are innovative engines of Schumpetarian growth. H...
Adequate credit availability for small businesses is an important public policy issue because small ...
Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Due to r...
sufficient amounts of credit for small- and medium-sized businesses, at affordable inter-est rates, ...
Small business is the economic engine of every community and is particularly critical for low income...
Small businesses are vital to the U.S. economy. The nation's 29.6 million small businesses generated...
In an attempt to support entrepreneurs, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) offers loans to...