Arbeitspapier
Funding self-employment: The role of consumer credit
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular instalment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal overdrafts significantly more often than employee households. When analyzing the correlation between consumer loan take-ups and consumption of self-employed in comparison to employee households, we find first evidence that overdrafts are used by self-employed to finance their business as well. This indicates that intermingling constitutes a financing strategy when regular business loans might not be accessible.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6093
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Household Saving; Personal Finance
- Thema
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small business finance
consumer credit
financial intermingling
Selbstständige
KMU
Finanzierung
Verbraucherkredit
Schätzung
Deutschland
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Kneiding, Christoph
Kritikos, Alexander S.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2011
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-201111213204
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Kneiding, Christoph
- Kritikos, Alexander S.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2011