), which provides a comprehensive overview on the use of CGSs for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) lending in Central …

This paper presents the main findings of the Survey for bank financing to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The key … objective was to capture the main features of the "supply side" of SMEs financing in the Republic of North Macedonia and to … identify institutional and policy constraints of banks' involvement with SMEs. The findings reveal that banks considered SMEs …

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 …