growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit … would bring about. We explore this growth mechanism using a large-scale program to expand the supply of credit to small and … medium enterprises in Brazil. Local credit supply shocks generate greater firm entry but also greater exit with no effect on …

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 …

2015, we test whether young businesses are more likely to face credit rejections from lenders than their older peers. Our … the issue of sample selection bias potentially affecting our data. Additional tests also reveal that credit constraints … viability of credit and, thus, ensure the growth of young businesses in the Euro area. …