“…See alsoChaney, Sraer and Thesmar (2012).4 For example,Kerr and Nanda (2011),Åstebro and Thompson (2011),Åstebro et al (2014),Levine and Rubinstein (2017), andGuzman and Stern (2020).5 Classic and recent work includesEvans and Jovanovic (1989), Holtz-Eakin, Joulfaian and Rosen (1994), Rajan and Zingales (1998),Cooley and Quadrini (2001),Gentry and Hubbard (2004),Cabral and Mata (2003),Cagetti and De Nardi (2006),Buera, Kaboski and Shin (2011),Chatterji and Seamens (2012), andBarrot (2016) Krishnan, Nandy and Puri (2015),Tsoutsoura (2015),Nguyen (2019),. andGreenstone, Mas and Nguyen (2020) are recent contributions to a parallel literature on local lending conditions and existing …rm and small business access to credit(Petersen and Rajan, 1994, 1995;Paravisini, 2008).6 Our work most closely connects toLastrapes et al (2021), who also use Census Bureau data in a contemporaneous investigation. By combining two rounds of con…dential data on the Survey of Business Owners, they document the stark rise in home equity loan use in Texas by business owners from 1992 to 2007.…”