Europe’s changing financial landscape: The financing of small and medium-sized enterprises

Series of papers presented at the 2003 EIB Conference on Economics and Finance, Luxembourg, 23 January 2003, aimed at reviewing Europe's changing financial landscape and the policy challenges arising from this. The papers in this volume are as follows: SME finance in Europe: introduction and overview (Rien Wagenvoort); Are finance constraints hindering the growth of SMEs in Europe? (Rien Wagenvoort); Financing the German Mittlelstand (Ulrich Hommel and Hilmar Schneider); Financing small business in France (Michel Dietsch); Small business finance in Italy (Luigi Guiso). Further papers from the conference are published in EIB Papers, Vol.8, No.1, 2003.