As the EU economy gradually recovers from the longest and deepest recession in post-war history, the 2014 edition of the European Competitiveness Report focuses on firms' growth - in particular a number of growth-enhancing measures and framework conditions affecting EU firms. These include the...

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs is a cross-border exchange programme which aims to help new and aspiring entrepreneurs acquire relevant skills to run and grow a small business by working with an experienced entrepreneur in another country for one to six months. It increases their know-how and...

In this paper the financing conditions of euro area firms are investigated relying on a comprehensive sample of more than one million firm-years in the period from 1993 to 2004. The relationship between financing conditions and firms' growth across firm sizes is analysed on the basis of newly...