Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/87022
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 09-019/2
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
We analyze financial support for the entrepreneurial sector. State support can raise welfare by relaxing financial constraints, but it can also reduce lending standards if entrepreneurs substitute public sources of collateral for their own assets, if it encourages excessive entrepreneurial entry, or if it undermines bank monitoring incentives. We derive a “pecking order” for support schemes: support funds should be channeled first to credit guarantee schemes and then, when entrepreneurs start to substitute public for private collateral, to co-funding entrepreneurial projects. The optimal level of credit guarantee is diminishing in the costs of incentivising bank monitoring. We show in an extension that the long-term effect of public subsidies may be to impair the private sector’s initiative to uncover cost savings.
Subjects: 
Partial Credit Guarantees
Co-funding and Loan Subsidies
Private Sector Initiative
Lending Standards
JEL: 
G2
G3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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