Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192689 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 707
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Are investments by new firms constrained by access to financing? If so, are the constraints persistent or do firms overcome their financing problems during the first years of operation? We examine the role of capital constraints by estimating the relation between founders' initial wealth and firm size during the first years of operation. Similar to previous studies, we find a positive impact of entrepreneurs' wealth prior to start-up on the start-up size of entrepreneurial firms, but this effect decreases during the first five years of operation. We also document a high degree of economic mobility among entrepreneurial firms during the first years of operation. This is primarily driven by a disproportional increase in debt financing among the smallest firms, indicating that capital constraints for entrepreneurs are transitory.
Subjects: 
Entrepreneurship
borrowing constraints
growth
JEL: 
L11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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