Small businesses (SMEs) depend on banks for credit. We show that the severity of the Eurozone crisis was worse in … banks while foreign banks' lending to the real sector stayed flat. Hence, SMEs remained dependent on domestic banks and were … sectors and countries with many SMEs vulnerable to global banking shocks …

-sized enterprises (SMEs). We conjecture that easy-to-understand risk ratings conveyed by the platform play a pronounced role in … influencing the borrowing success of SMEs and that more sophisticated financial information and adverse selection are largely …

activities) affecting the propensity of European small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt energy efficiency measures …

Mittelstand enterprises, defined as owner-managed SMEs. We present supporting evidence for the hypothesis that Mittelstand firms … performed more stable throughout the Great Recession than non-Mittelstand firms. We also show that owner-managed SMEs performed … significantly better than SMEs and owner-managed large enterprises. Thus, it is rather the combination of firm-size and owner …