SBA guaranteed lending and local economic growth

Ben Craig, William E. Jackson and James Thomson

No 2005-28, FRB Atlanta Working Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Abstract: Increasingly, policymakers look to the small business sector as a potential engine of economic growth. Policies to promote small businesses include tax relief, direct subsidies, and indirect subsidies through government lending programs. Encouraging lending to small business is the primary policy objective of the Small Business Administration's (SBA) loan-guarantee program. Using a panel data set of SBA guaranteed loans, we assess whether SBA guaranteed lending has an observable impact on local economic performance. We find a positive and significant (although economically small) relationship between the relative levels of SBA guaranteed lending in a local market and the future per capita income growth in that market.

Date: 2005
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