Access to Bank Credit and SME Financing

Part I: Credit Market Environment and SME Finance in Europe.- Chapter 1: Non-Bank Financing for Euro Area Companies During the Crisis; Annalisa Ferrando and Emmanouil Mavrakis.- Chapter 2: Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be! Loan Application and Credit Decision for Young European Firms; Andrea Moro, Daniela Maresch, Annalisa Ferrando and Julia Barbar.- Chapter 3: Legal-institutional Environment, Social Capital, and the Cost of Bank Financing for SMEs: Evidence from the Euro Area; Emma Galli, Danilo V. Mascia and Stefania P.S. Rossi.- Chapter 4: Credit Access for Small Firms in the Euro Area: Does Gender Matter?; Maria Lucia Stefani and Valerio Vacca.- Chapter 5: The Small Firm Financing Premium in Europe: Where and When do Small Firms Pay Most?; Sarah Holton and Fergal McCann.- Chapter 6: Sovereign and Bank CDS Spreads During the European Debt Crisis: Laying the Foundation for SMEs' Financial Distress; Danilo V. Mascia, Paolo Mattana, Stefania P.S. Rossi and Roberto D'Aietti.- Chapter7: SME Sources of Funding: More Capital or More Debt to Sustain Growth? An empirical analysis; Marina Brogi and Valentina Lagasio.- Part II: SME Funding and the Role of Alternative Non-Bank Finance in Italy.- Chapter 8: SME Credit Access after Basel 3. Does Size (and Quality) Matter; Pietro Vozzella and Giampaolo Gabbi.- Chapter 9: Credit Supply and Bank Interest Rates in the Italian Regions; Roberto Malavasi and Mauro Aliano.- Chapter 10: Corporate Bonds for SMEs: a Study of Italian Minibonds; Giuseppe Riccio, Roberto Malavasi and Mauro Aliano.- Chapter 11: Using Open-End Mutual Funds Resources to Finance SMEs: the Potential Market Share of ELTIFs; Fabrizio Crespi.

Stefania P. S. Rossi is Professor of Economics at the University of Cagliari, Italy. She has been a postdoctoral visiting scholar at Stanford University, USA, an Economist at the World Bank, and a Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her publications include many articles in the field of financial markets and banking.