Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify how consumption of 12 goods – alcohol, cigarettes, fast food, items sold at vending machines, purchases of food away from home, cookies, cakes, chips, candy, donuts, bacon, and carbonated soft drinks – varies across the income distribution by...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the status of small-business lending following the recession. Design/methodology/approach The authors survey the literature and analyze recent surveys of small-business lending. Findings The results reinforce the importance of owner equity as a...

Purpose While many studies find a positive relationship between economic freedom and entrepreneurship, very few of these studies account for possible spatial autocorrelation. Moreover, the development of an overall freedom measure has allowed researchers to test the relationship between overall...