SMEs’ Access to Credit: Are Government Measures Helpful for Constrained Firms?

Annalisa Ferrando and Monica Rossolini

Chapter Chapter 12 in Public Private Partnerships for Infrastructure and Business Development, 2015, pp 221-236 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have a central role in the European economy, accounting for more than 99.8 percent of all euro area nonfinancial firms, employed 86.8 million people (two-thirds of euro area workforce), and generated about 57.7 percent of value added (European Investment Fund 2014).

Keywords: Venture Capital; Euro Area; Bank Loan; Trade Credit; Credit Constraint (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-54148-2_12

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781137541482

DOI: 10.1057/9781137541482_12

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().