This brochure summarises key points from the EIB Economics Conference report Investment and Investment Finance in Europe 2015 and the EIB research report Restoring EU competitiveness. It outlines the structural crisis of competitiveness facing Europe, important investment shortcomings and key...

The InnovFin Infectious Diseases Finance Facility (IDFF) provides financial products ranging from standard debt to equity-type financing for amounts typically between EUR 7.5 million and EUR 75 million, to innovative players active in developing innovative vaccines, drugs, medical and diagnostic...

The Complaints Mechanism is the citizen-driven accountability tool of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group.3 It offers a platform for individuals, communities and civil society organisations to raise their concerns about the EIB Group's projects and activities, enabling them to exercise...

The EIB is a major partner for investments that promote efficient energy, transport and urban infrastructure. Building networks for the internal market is essential to foster growth and increase Europe's competitiveness. Supporting typically large and long-term investments, in 2014 alone the EIB...

The EIB is a major partner for investments that promote efficient energy, transport and urban infrastructure. Building networks for the internal market is essential to foster growth and increase Europe's competitiveness. Supporting typically large and long-term investments, in 2014 alone the EIB...

Most people in the world live in cities. Urban areas generate around 85% of European GDP and are home to three-quarters of the population. Creating green, sustainable cities, to which the EIB committed over EUR 8bn in 2012, lies at the heart of the Bank's investment activity.

Most people in the world live in cities. 75% of Europeans live in towns and cities and around 85% of the EU's GDP is generated in urban areas. Greening cities and making them sustainable are at the heart of the EIB's investments in urban areas. Over the last five years (2006-2010), the EIB has...

The Global Emerging Markets Risk Database Consortium (GEMs) is a consortium of multilateral development banks and development finance institutions, spanning across geographical locations. Established in 2009 by EIB and the World Bank Group, GEMs aims to pool credit risk data to support...

This paper examines the relationship between net trade credit and firms' investment levels, focusing on financially distressed firms. First, it introduces a theoretical model to predict the role played by net trade credit as a coordination device differentiating firms by their degree of...