Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the status of small-business lending following the recession. Design/methodology/approach The authors survey the literature and analyze recent surveys of small-business lending. Findings The results reinforce the importance of owner equity as a...

This study empirically examines Becker's (1971) wage discrimination theory using foreign-born National Basketball Association (NBA) players. Despite the rapid growth in the NBA, particularly in foreign markets, existing literature suggests that foreign-born players continue to be underpaid...

This article investigates why some US states spend so comparatively little on Tobacco Control Funding (TCF). We find that cross-state variation in spending on tobacco control is significantly driven by a tobacco special interest effect.