In this study, we aim to assess the relevance of credit composition to entrepreneurship empirically in light of the …-called neutrality principle or undertake an active credit policy. We employ a panel data model to quantify the effect of credit … composition on entrepreneurship in 54 high- and middle-income economies from 2001 to 2016. To capture credit composition, we …

availability of credit facilities with special reference to bank lending’s and venture capital investment …

Based on automated credit lines to more than two million vendors trading on Alibaba’s online retail platform, we show … how the take-up of FinTech credit varies with the entrepreneur’s bank distance. Proximity to the branches of the five … largest stateowned banks correlates positively with the take-up of FinTech credit and suggests more severe credit frictions …