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Entrepreneurs' Gender and Financial Constraints: Evidence from International Data

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Alexander Muravyev
Dorothea Schäfer
Oleksandr Talavera

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This paper studies gender discrimination against entrepreneurs by financial institutions. Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) that covers firms in several countries of Western Europe as well as in the transition countries of Eastern Europe, our analysis suggests that female-managed firms are less likely to obtain a bank loan compared with male-managed counterparts. In addition, there is some evidence that female entrepreneurs are charged higher interest rates when loan applications are approved. Disaggregation of the sample by country groups suggests that these results are driven by firms in the least financially developed countries of the region.

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Keywords: entrepreneurship; gender; financial constraints;

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G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Mortgages
J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship

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