Italian SMEs go public much less than SMEs located in other European countries, even though their relevance for the national economy is relatively higher in terms of employment and value added. Why do Italian SMEs so scarcely rely on equity as an external source of finance, despite the option of...

European financial regulation and supervision have undergone tremendous changes over the last years. The current institutional arrangements adopted in Europe, at both EU/eurozone and national level, are the results of an evolutionary process that was mainly driven in its recent phases by the...