In Europe, several countries have established public loan guarantee funds throughout direct/indirect loan programs to facilitate the access of SMEs and start-ups to bank credit. This paper investigates whether start-ups' level of access to bank loans during the early stage represents an imprinting factor with effects on the likelihood of survival once the firm reaches maturity. We rely on a firm-level longitudinal data set of 49,111 Italian startups born from 2003 to 2005. Implementing a 2SLS regression analysis we show that the initial level of start-up bank debt negatively influences the probability of default controlling for firm characteristics and performance. (JEL G21, M20, H32).
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Titolo: | DOES INITIAL ACCESS TO BANK LOANS PREDICT START-UPS' FUTURE DEFAULT PROBABILITY? EVIDENCE FROM ITALY |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2021 |
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Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11770/315263 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 1.1 Articolo in rivista |