A team from ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ has won a research bid provided by the to provide seminars addressing access to finance for SMEs. The seminars bring together keynote speakers from academia, government agencies and industry in order to discuss the most pertinent issues of SME finance and of credit risk, with a view to developing new research and policy agendas relevant to lenders and regulators.
The project team consists of BU Professor Jens Hölscher and Professor Dean Patton with colleagues from the , , and the . In addition, the project team are joined by Professor Andreas Horsch and his colleagues from the in Germany, enabling the project to provide comparative data with the German context.