1. Introduction; Mohyedine Hajjar -- Introductory Part 1: Legal Framework of Islamic Finance in EU Legislation -- 2. Financial Undertakings, Sharīᶜa Rules and the Internal Market Framework Challenges and Opportunities; Gabriella Gimigliano -- 3. Islamic Insurance and European Union Legal...

We study the relationships between firm financial structure and growth for a large sample of Italian firms (1998-2003). We expand upon existing analyses testing whether liquidity constraints affect firm performance by considering among growth determinants also firm debt structure. Panel...

We present a comparable set of results on the monetary transmission channels on firm investment for the four largest euro-area countries (Germany, France, Italy and Spain). With particularly rich micro datasets for each country containing over 215,000 observations from 1985 to 1999, we explore...