SME Finance and the Economic Crisis: The Case of Greece

This book analyses the financing problems of Greek small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), within a liberalized financial system and within an economic environment of fiscal and monetary constraints. Using recent data covering a ten-year period, the main aim of the research is to explain the interdependence between the situation of the banking sector generally and that of small and medium enterprises.

The author argues that the reluctance of banks to lend to Greek companies because of the...