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Financial Constraints of Entrepreneurs and the Self-Employed

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  • Vyacheslav Mikhed
  • Sahil Raina
  • Barry Scholnick

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Growth-oriented entrepreneurial start-ups generate more economic growth than other self-employed businesses, yet they only constitute a small fraction of start-ups. We examine whether financial constraints impede these types of start-ups by exploiting lottery wins as exogenous wealth shocks. We find that lottery-win magnitude increases winners? subsequent incorporation, implying that entrepreneurs face financial constraints, but not business registration, implying that financial constraints do not bind as much for the self-employed. Our results, that financial constraints bind for incorporations among men, for serial entrepreneurs, during economic booms, and in neighborhoods without local lenders, are important for understanding the financial impediments to entrepreneurial start-ups.

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  • Vyacheslav Mikhed & Sahil Raina & Barry Scholnick, 2019. "Financial Constraints of Entrepreneurs and the Self-Employed," Working Papers 19-52, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedpwp:19-52
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21799/frbp.wp.2019.52
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    Keywords

    entrepreneurship; self-employment; financial constraints;
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    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
    • M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups

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