Loans and trade credit are major sources of short-term debt and liquidity for small firms. This article uses data from the 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances to compare the borrowing experience of small firms owned by black men to those owned by white men. Results reveal that black firm...

The main aim of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the factors explaining the entrepreneurial rates in Italy and the differences with the same factors in a sample of EU countries. The reason for this study is that during the last decade Italy showed one of the lowest rates of...

Entrepreneurship is considered as a reliable way to improve a stagnant economy, facilitate economic growth in many developing countries, as well as absorb foreign technology effectively. However, despite the lavish studies on the motivation to become an entrepreneur, a little literature focuses...