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Title Small businesses in the aftermath of the crisis : international analyses and policies / Giorgio Calcagnini, Ilario Favaretto, editors
Published Heidelberg ; New York : Physica-Verlag, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series Contributions to economics, 1431-1933
Contributions to economics.
Contents SME and Entrepreneurship Policies After the Crisis / Sergio Arzeni, Lucia Cusmano and Jonathan Potter -- OECD Countries' Policy Approach to the SME Crisis in the Recent Recession / Salvatore Zecchini -- Industrial Policy for SMEs Renewal: The Opportunity of Service Platforms / Bruno Basalisco and Guido M. Rey -- Starting Smaller; Staying Smaller: America's Slow Leak in Job Creation / E.J. Reedy and Robert J. Strom -- The Italian Small- and Medium-Sized Firms in the Aftermath of the Crisis / Giorgio Calcagnini and Ilario Favaretto -- Product Innovation and Corporate Governance in Turbulent Times: Evidence from Italian SMEs / Marco Cucculelli -- The Internationalization of Italian SME After the Crisis: New Opportunities or New Threats? / Rosalba Rombaldoni -- The Great Recession of 2008-2009, Conventional and Non-conventional U.S. Federal Government Responses and Their Impact on U.S. Small Businesses / Giuseppe Gramigna -- Access to Finance in the Euro Area: What Are SMEs Telling Us About the Crisis? / Annalisa Ferrando -- Examining the Impact of Credit Access on Small Firm Survivability / Traci L. Mach and John D. Wolken -- Internal Capital Market and Investment Decisions in Small and Medium-Sized Groups / Donato Iacobucci -- Guarantees and Bank Loan Interest Rates in Italian Small-Sized Firms / Giorgio Calcagnini, Fabio Farabullini and Germana Giombini
Summary This book seeks to analyze how small and medium businesses react to the economic and financial crisis. Its focus is on the activities and strategies of SMEs in the areas of innovation, R & D investment, labor markets and finance. The book takes an international perspective and includes both comparative and national analyses and policies, with authors representing acdemia and international institutions such as the ECB, OECD, Kauffman Foundation, Federal Reserve, and US Small Business Administration
Analysis Industrial organization (Economic theory)
Regional economics
Entrepreneurship
Industrial Organization
R & D/Technology Policy
Regional/Spatial Science
Finance/Investment/Banking
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Small business -- Italy
Small business -- Government policy -- Italy
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Small Business.
Science économique.
Affaires.
Small business
Small business -- Government policy
Italy
Form Electronic book
Author Calcagnini, Giorgio.
Favaretto, Ilario, 1945-
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