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Small Business Loan Turndowns, Personal Wealth, and Discrimination

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Ken Cavalluzzo (Wisconsin Capital Management)
John Wolken (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)

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Abstract

We examine the impact of personal wealth on small business loan turndowns across demographic groups. Information on home ownership, home equity, and personal net worth, in combination with a rich set of explanatory variables, furthers our understanding of the credit market experiences of small businesses across demographic groups. We find substantial unexplained differences in denial rates between African-American-, Hispanic-, Asian-, and white-owned firms. We find that greater personal wealth is associated with a lower probability of loan denial. However, even after controlling for personal wealth, large differences in denial rates across demographic groups remain.

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Volume (Year): 78 (2005)
Issue (Month): 6 (November)
Pages: 2153-2178
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