The adoption in 2004 by Euro-Mediterranean Ministers for Industry of the Euro-Mediterranean Charter for Enterprise resulted in important steps to improve the business environment. The 2008 enterprise policy assessment presents a comprehensive picture of policies that promote entrepreneurship 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...