Funding self-employment - the role of consumer credit

Applied Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 1741-1749

  Kneiding, Christoph ^a,b   Kritikos, Alexander S ^b,c,d  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b Gesellschaft für Arbeitsmarktaktivierung ^*  (Germany)

^c DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

consumer credit; financial intermingling; household business interface; small business finance

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; CREDIT PROVISION; FINANCIAL SERVICES; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; SELF EMPLOYMENT; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE;

EID: 84859638599     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2011.637895     Document Type: Article

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