Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2025
highlights the critical role credit card financing plays for small business activity. We examine a two year period beginning in … January of 2021. A turbulent period during which, credit card usage by small U.S. businesses nearly doubled, interest payments … rose by 60%, and delinquencies reached 2.8%. We find, first, monthly credit card payments were up to three times higher …