Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/100955 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2005-28
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
Increasingly, policymakers look to the small business sector as a potential engine of economic growth. Policies to promote small businesses include tax relief, direct subsidies, and indirect subsidies through government lending programs. Encouraging lending to small business is the primary policy objective of the Small Business Administration's (SBA) loan-guarantee program. Using a panel data set of SBA guaranteed loans, we assess whether SBA guaranteed lending has an observable impact on local economic performance. We find a positive and significant (although economically small) relationship between the relative levels of SBA guaranteed lending in a local market and the future per capita income growth in that market.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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