The present analysis brings together a series of studies across a spectrum of selected countries in developed Western nations and Eastern Europe to identify the exact role of small firms, and how that role has evolved during the fifteen years preceding the publication of the book in...

We estimate heterogeneous treatment effects of the EIB financial support on European firms between 2008 and 2015. The relevant control groups are created with propensity score matching and the effects are estimated in a difference-in-differences framework, controlling for firm-level and...