A workshop on the "The Impact of the Crisis on SMEs" was held in the European Parliament in Brussels on 1 February 2010. This document contains the programme, presentations and proceedings of that workshop.

Overall, household debt levels have risen sharply over the past decades in EU Member States. While certain levels of household debts can be beneficial, they can become problematic especially with a sudden, unexpected decrease of incomes or increase of expenditures. The current financial crisis...

This brief analysis, which is based on unclassified sources, seeks to identify what some of the implications would be if the Soviets started to move actively to try to provide reprocessing and MOX fabrication services to the US and other countries. While information on Soviet intentions is...

The purpose of this study is to explore the accuracy issue of the Input-Output model in quantifying the impacts of the 2007 economic crisis on a local tourism industry and economy. Though the model has been extensively used in the tourism impact analysis, its estimation accuracy is rarely...

This paper studies the process that led to the Argentine crisis. The crisis is understood as a major disappointment of previous expectations, indicated by widespread insolvencies and abrupt declines in consumption. The analysis concentrates on the sequence of public and private decisions, and...

Incluye bibliografía ; Este artículo analiza la evolución del número de empleados al servicio de las Administraciones Públicas (AAPP) en España a lo largo de la crisis y el proceso reciente de consolidación fiscal. Caracterizamos los cambios en la estructura y composición del empleo de...

Incluye bibliografía ; La crisis económica que ha afectado a los países industrializados en los últimos años ha sido singular por su intensidad, complejidad y por las dificultades para su superación. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar los factores que han determinado que la crisis...