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

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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).

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Ferrando, A., Rossolini, M. (2015). SMEs’ Access to Credit: Are Government Measures Helpful for Constrained Firms?. In: Caselli, S., Corbetta, G., Vecchi, V. (eds) Public Private Partnerships for Infrastructure and Business Development. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137541482_12

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