Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/124998 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9489
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2012, we apply detailed matching and regression methods to estimate the variation in SBA loan effects on job creation and firm survival across firm age and size groups. The number of jobs created per million dollars of loans generally increases with size and decreases in age. The results imply that fast-growing firms ("gazelles") experience the greatest financial constraints to growth, while the growth of small, mature firms is least financially constrained. The estimated association between survival and loan amount is larger for younger and smaller firms facing the "valley of death".
Subjects: 
job creation
firm survival
credit constraints
small businesses
government loan guarantees
JEL: 
H81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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