and weak contract enforcement at home, domestic expansion of SMEs is constrained by the necessity of awarding trade credit …

the markets for SME debt products and, finally, it highlights important aspects of microfinance in Europe. A chapter on …

This paper provides a pan-European assessment of EU credit guarantees to SMEs. Synthesizing past research, it … the financial growth and survivability of firms, through a comparison against SMEs that were not supported by these …

SMEs' growth in Italy, the Benelux and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) from 2002 to 2016. In … these macro-regions, the facilities supported 174,107 loans to SMEs, for a total of EUR 15.58bn. Using a sample of these …, assets intangibility and survival. The analysis compares beneficiary SMEs to similar firms that were not supported by the …

environment, then looks at the main aspects of equity finance and the guarantee and SME securitisation markets and, finally, it …

environment, then looks at the main aspects of equity finance and the guarantee and SME securitisation markets. It also highlights …

This EIF Working Paper elaborates on the most recent update2 of the EIF SME Access to Finance (ESAF) Index, a composite … indicator that monitors SME external financing markets in the 28 EU countries. The ESAF was developed by EIF in collaboration …

This EIF Working Paper elaborates on the most recent update of the EIF SME Access to Finance (ESAF) Index, a composite … indicator used to monitor SME external financing markets in the 28 EU countries. The current update, using latest available data …

This EIF Working Paper outlines the methodology underlying the new EIF SME Access to Finance (ESAF) Index. This newly … developed index aims at monitoring developments in SMEs' access to financial resources in the EU and is going to be periodically …