Small businesses (SMEs) depend on banks for credit. We show that the severity of the Eurozone crisis was worse in … banks while foreign banks' lending to the real sector stayed flat. Hence, SMEs remained dependent on domestic banks and were … sectors and countries with many SMEs vulnerable to global banking shocks. …

, from access to securitized lending and stock markets. These limitations for SMEs may seriously limit their expansion …, a conference on "Financing SMEs in Europe" was jointly organised by SUERF and the Banque de France on 11 and 12 … September 2008 in Paris. The conference addressed three issues: First, major theories of SMEs' financing behaviour were …

shock, in contrast, reduces the approval likelihood for SME loans in particular, while agro and micro loans are considerably …

loan approval and affects SME rather than micro borrowers …

shock, in contrast, reduces the approval likelihood for SME loans in particular, while agro and micro loans are considerably …

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) of southern euro-area economies (e.g. Italy, Spain) pay significantly higher … market failures prevent SMEs in southern euro area countries from access to key inputs, in particular access to finance. This … paper makes an assessment of feasible options to improve finance access of SMEs, available to EU institutions as well as to …