Introduction / Chiara Guglielmatti
The global economic crisis and its impacts on SMEs
The US financial crisis : a long day's journey into night / Steven Rosefielde
The EU crisis seen from the bottom : the perspective of vulnerable economies on eurozone troubles / Bruno Dallago and Chiara Guglielmetti
Financial crises and labour markets : comparative evidences / Marcello Signorelli
European policis to promote the access to finance of SMEs / Elisabetta Pederzini Part II: SMEs' Vulnerability and Resilience
Vulnerable or resilient? : SMEs and the economic crisis in the UK
Access to finance, access to markets, excess of bureaucracy : the three problems of SME development / Andrej Rus
Polish and Hungarian SMEs facing the crisis / Karoly Attila Soos
Riding the economic downturn : cooperatives in Europe / Michele Rondinelli and Anna Sarateanu
SMEs and local development
Industrial districts in front of the financial crisis : network structure, variety, risk sharing, and resilience / Giulio Cainelli, Sandro Montressor, and Giuseppe Vittucci Marzetti
Economic structure, reaction to the crisis and entrepreneurs' expectations in a mature regional economy : the case of Lombardia / Donatella Baiardi and Marco Percoco
Who are the entrepreneurs that help the economy emerge from crisis? / Ferran Vendrell-Herrero, José Luís González-Pernía, and Iñaki Peña-Legazkue
Federal grants for local development to stop economic decline? : lessons from Germany / Peter Haug and Martin T.W. Rosenfeld.