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
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6093

Klassifikation
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
small business finance
consumer credit
financial intermingling
Selbstständige
KMU
Finanzierung
Verbraucherkredit
Schätzung
Deutschland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kneiding, Christoph
Kritikos, Alexander S.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2011

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201111213204
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Kneiding, Christoph
  • Kritikos, Alexander S.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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