We examine how consumer credit access impacts self-employment and small business ownership by building a new dataset that links 3 million individual earnings and credit reports to pass-through tax records. We show that self-employment and employer business ownership increase with personal credit...

This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular instalment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal overdrafts...

Existenzgründung, Unternehmensgründung, Entrepreneurship - die aus diesem Themenspektrum erwachsenden Fragen werden für Theorie und Praxis immer bedeutsamer. Namhafte Experten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis beleuchten in diesem Buch das Phänomen Existenzgründung aus unterschiedlichen...

The Uniform Small Loan Law (USLL) was the Russell Sage Foundation’s primary device for fighting what it viewed as the scourge of high-rate lending to poor people in the first half of the twentieth century. The USLL created a new class of lenders who could make small loans at interest rates...