The topic of this paper seems rather simple at first glance; however it is anything but simple. The issu, entrepreneurship and low income (LI) communities, needs to be put into perspective and that is not simple. So, let us start with a simpler question: Does entrepreneurship impact communities in...

Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks' lending techniques affect funding to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of firms to these firms' credit constraints at two...

Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks' lending techniques affect funding to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of firms to these firms' credit constraints at two...