Measuring the Efficiency of Financial Inputs for Entrepreneurship

This study employs data on small businesses from the Office of Advocacy for the U.S. Small Business Administration along with the FDIC Call Report data for U.S. commercial banks. We examine the efficiency of the impact of the financial inputs on small business entrepreneurial output. Our study provides a metric to capture financial input efficiency to the entrepreneurial process. The metric obtained from this analysis is useful for identification and adoption of best practices to enhance the efficiency of the entrepreneurial process