The Economics of Small Businesses

1. Innovative Entrepreneurship and Policy: Toward Initiation and Preservation of Growth
William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, Carl J. Schramm, Robert J. Strom

2. State Programs to Promote the Growth of Innovative Firms in the United States – A Taxonomy
Charles Ou

3. OECD-Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme: Comparable International Measures of Entrepreneurship and the Factors that Enhance or Impede It
Tim C. Davis, Mariarosa Lunati

4. The Peculiarities of SMEs in Europe and Italy: Technology Transfer Policies
Riccardo Gallo, Marco Iezzi

5. Public Policies for Italian SMEs: Instruments, Results and Current Trends
Aurelio Bruzzo

6. SME Financing and the Financial Crisis: A Framework and Some Issues
Gregory F. Udell

7. Access to Bank Financing and New Investment: Evidence from Europe
Larry W. Chavis, Leora F. Klapper, Inessa Love

8. Basel II and Changing Bank-Firm Relationship: A Survey
Chiara Bentivogli, Emidio Cocozza, Antonella Foglia, Simonetta Iannotti

9. Financial Models of Small Innovative Firms: An Empirical Investigation
Giorgio Calcagnini, Ilario Favaretto, Germana Giombini

10. Sources of Financing for New Technology Firms: Evidence from the Kauffman Firm Survey
Susan Coleman, Alicia Robb

11. Do Male and Female Loan Officers Differ in Small Business Lending? A Review of the Literature
Andrea Bellucci, Alexander Borisov, Alberto Zazzaro

Keywords: Economics/Management Science, Economic Policy, Regional/Spatial Science