An extensive literature has analysed the economic effects of transition patterns in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries. With few recent exceptions, analysis of the impacts of speed and sequencing of reforms has not concerned the dynamics of income inequality. In this...

An extensive literature has analysed the economic effects of transition patterns in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries. With few recent exceptions, analysis of the impacts of speed and sequencing of reforms has not concerned the dynamics of income inequality. In this...

Using panel firm-level data, this paper analyses the main factors affecting firms' access to bank credit in eleven Euro Area countries over the period 2014-2016. We focus on firm's loan demand behaviour and on bank's actual credit granting decision, using alternative measures of credit...