Strategic Issues for Hispanic Entrepreneurs—Credit Access
Strategic Issues for Hispanic Entrepreneurs—Credit Access
This chapter addresses how Hispanic entrepreneurs fared with regards to accessing credit in the first decade of the 2000s. Hispanic entrepreneurs were more likely than their non-Hispanic counterparts to report the inability to acquire the financial capital they needed to expand or improve their operations; they also appeared to face other credit-access barriers in the form of relatively small loan amounts and high interest rates. In addition to considering the role of discrimination, this chapter discusses how these findings could relate to cultural forces, including how Hispanics seem to be relatively conservative in their credit demands and less likely to trust traditional methods of financing, such as bank loans.
Keywords: Hispanic credit access, Hispanic access to financial capital, Hispanic trust in banks, Loans to Hispanic-owned businesses, Discrimination in credit markets
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