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Basic Facts on the Coverage of the Paycheck Protection Program

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This paper applies loan-level information from Paycheck Protection Program loans to analyze the coverage of this extraordinary lending program. We show that loans went to a large share of small businesses across most industries in the US, especially to industries that were most negatively impacted by COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. We geocode the loans and then identify that 2021 loans were more concentrated in low- and moderate-income communities, along with census tracts where minority residents are a majority of the population. The growth of nonemployer loans and fintech lending in the program were key components of the broadened reach of the program.

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  • Angela Guo & Mark E. Schweitzer, 2023. "Basic Facts on the Coverage of the Paycheck Protection Program," Working Papers 23-24, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedcwq:97246
    DOI: 10.26509/frbc-wp-202324
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    Keywords

    small business lending; credit access; fintech; discrimination;
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    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
    • R3 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location
    • J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing

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