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External Financing for EU SMEs – Challenges, Measures and Trends

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  • Laura Vasilescu

    (University of Craiova)

  • Sorin Tudor

    (University of Craiova)

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Increasing the capacity of SMEs to access finance is important for funding business investment, ensuring businesses growth potential, and for facilitating new business start-ups. The most important sources of finance for EU Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are the external sources: bank overdrafts, bank loans, leasing, trade credit and other loans. The access to external sources for is influences by various factors, structural, cyclical, from supply and demand side. The main obstacles for accessing financing sources, the recent evolutions and trends regarding the SMEs financing but also the main actions and policies taken at the European level are analyzed in this paper.

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  • Laura Vasilescu & Sorin Tudor, 2015. "External Financing for EU SMEs – Challenges, Measures and Trends," Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series, Ovidius University of Constantza, Faculty of Economic Sciences, vol. 0(2), pages 565-569, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:ovi:oviste:v:xv:y:2015:i:2:p:565-569
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    Keywords

    financing; challenges; influence factors; SMEs; EU;
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    JEL classification:

    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
    • M21 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - Business Economics

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