Preface -- 1 SME and Entrepreneurship Policies After the Crisis -- 2 The Italian Small- and Medium-Sized Firms in the Aftermath of the Crisis: Is there a New Model? -- 3 Industrial Policy for SMEs Renewal: The Opportunity of Service Platforms -- 4 Product Inovation and Corporate Governance in...

This paper analyzes financial contagion in a banking system where banks are linked by interbank claims and common assets. We find that asset commonality makes banking systems more vulnerable to idiosyncratic shocks and helps to determine which interbank network structures are resistant to...