Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship

William Kerr and Ramana Nanda

No 07-033, Harvard Business School Working Papers from Harvard Business School

Abstract: We examine entrepreneurship and creative destruction following US banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. US banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. The vast majority of closures, however, were the new ventures themselves. Although we do find evidence for the standard story of creative destruction, the most pronounced impact was a massive increase in churning among new entrants. We argue that creative destruction requires many businesses failures along with the few great successes. The successes are very difficult to identify ex ante, which is why democratizing entry is an important trait of well-functioning capital markets.

Keywords: banking; financial constraints; entrepreneurship; creative destruction; growth. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E44 G21 L26 L43 M13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2006-12, Revised 2008-10
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Journal Article: Democratizing entry: Banking deregulations, financing constraints, and entrepreneurship (2009)
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