Internet Appendix for 'Trading Credit (Subsidies) for Votes: The Effect of Local Politics on Small Business Lending'

Abstract

This internet appendix complements the paper “Trading Credit (Subsidies) for Votes: The Effect of Local Politics on Small Business Lending” and is organized as follows: Appendix A provides the main results of the paper under alternative regression discontinuity specifications, Appendix B provides additional results on the performance of SBA loans, Appendix C provides the benchmark results of the paper separately for the 504 and 7(a) loan programs, Appendix D provides analysis of alternative channels of government influence on the local economy, and Appendix E provides the regression discontinuity plots not presented in the main paper.

Keywords: small business finance, political economy, gerrymandering, redistricting, credit subsidies

JEL Classification: G28, G21, P16, H81, D72