Finance and Investment: The European Case

• 1: Colin Mayer, Stefano Micossi, Marco Onado, Marco Pagano, and Andrea Polo: Introduction


• 2: Immacolata Marino, Brunella Bruno, and Alexandra D'Onofrio: Financial Structure and Corporate Investment in Europe: Evidence from the Crisis Years


• 3: Marcin Wolski, Francesca Barbiero, Philipp-Bastian Brutscher, Atanas Kolev, and Alexander Popov: Misallocation of Investment in Europe: The Role of Debt Overhang and Credit Market Distress


• 4: Sergio Schmukler and María Soledad Martinez Pería: Understanding the Use of Long-term Finance in Developing Countries


• 5: Fabrizio Coricelli and Marco Frigerio: Liquidity Squeeze on SMEs during the Great Recession in Europe: The Role of Trade Credit


• 6: Brunella Bruno, Immacolata Marino, and Alexandra D'Onofrio: Determinants of Bank Lending in Europe and the US Evidence from Crisis and Post Crisis Years


• 7: Tim Eisert,Viral V. Acharya, Christian Eufinger, and Christian Hirsch: Same Story, Different Place? Post-Crisis Recapitalization of Banks in Japan and Europe


• 8: Marco Pagano: The Sovereign-Bank Nexus and the Case for European Safe Bonds


• 9: Marco Onado, Brunella Bruno, and Giuseppe Lusignani: A Securitisation Scheme for Resolving Europe's Problem Loans


• 10: Claire Célérier, Thomas Kick, and Steven Ongena: Changes in the Cost of Bank Equity and the Supply of Bank Credit


• 11: Thomas Hellman, Gilles Duruflé, and Karen Wilson: From Start-up to Scale-up: Examining Public Policies for the Financing of High-Growth Ventures


• 12: Eric Nowak and Alexander Eisele: Market Innovations for (Non-Bank) Financing of SMEs in Light of Crisis and New Regulation- A Policy Perspective


• 13: Emanuele Rossi, Paola Bongini, Annalisa Ferrando, and Monica Rossolini: Capital Markets Union and firms' access to external market-based finance: evidence and policy implications from a novel survey-based index

Colin Mayer is the Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He is a Professorial Fellow and Sub-Warden of Wadham College, Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and St Anne's College, Oxford. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to business education and the administration of justice in the economic sphere in the 2017 New Years Honours.
Colin Mayer was the first professor at the Saïd Business School, and the first Director of the Oxford Financial Research Centre. He was also previously the Peter Moores Dean of the Business School. He was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University, a Houblon-Norman Fellow at the BanBank of England, the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance at the Solvay Business School, Université de Bruxelles, and has had visiting positions at Columbia, MIT and Stanford universities.

Stefano Micossi is Director General of Assonime, a private business association and think tank active on issues of corporate law and taxation, competition policy, and regulatory affairs. In 2016 he was appointed Honorary Professor of the College of Europe, where he has taught monetary and banking union and internal market matters for over 20 years. He Chairs the LUISS School of European Political Economy and the Scientific Advisory Committee of Confindustria.
Stefano Micossi is also Member of the Board of Directors of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), European Issuers (the European Association of Listed Companies), the Institute for International Affairs (IAI) and the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation.


Marco Onado is a Senior Professor at Bocconi University. He was formerly Full Professor of Banking at Modena and then Bologna Universities, Commisssioner of CONSOB, and a columnist for Il Sole-24 Ore. Marco Onado is a memberr of the Scientific Committee of Prometaia,