Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2014 : an OECD Scoreboard.

Acknowledgements
 Table of contents
 Acronyms and abbreviations
 Executive summary
 Reader\'s guide: Indicators and methodology
 Table 1. Core indicators in financing SMEs and entrepreneurs 2014
 Part I The evolving international framework for SME and entrepreneurship finance
 Chapter 1. Recent trends in SME and entrepreneurship finance
 Business environment and the macroeconomic context
 Table 1.1. Real GDP growth in Scoreboard countries
 Figure 1.1. Financial conditions indices in the euro area and the United States
 Lending to SMEs
 Figure 1.2. Trends in outstanding SME loans 2010-12. Figure 1.3. Trends in outstanding SME loans 2007-12Table 1.2. Growth of SME business loans, 2007-12
 Figure 1.4. Growth patterns of outstanding SME loans, 2007-12
 Table 1.3. Share of SME loans in total business loans, 2007-12
 Table 1.4. Trends in SME loan shares and credit market scenarios, 2011-12
 Figure 1.5. Trends in SME loan shares, 2011-12
 Credit conditions for SMEs
 Figure 1.6. Trends in SME nominal interest rates and interest rate spreads, 2011-12
 Figure 1.7. Trends in SME collateral requirements: 2010-12
 Evidence from demand-side surveys on credit conditions. Table 1.5. ECB Survey on SME access to financeEquity financing
 Table 1.6. Venture and growth capital invested, 2007-12
 Payment delays and bankruptcies
 Table 1.7. Trends in payment delays 2007-12
 Table 1.8. Trends in bankruptcies 2007-12
 Summing up and looking ahead
 Government responses to the crisis
 Table 1.9. Government policy responses to improve access to finance, 2007-12
 Notes
 References
 Chapter 2. Alternative financing instruments: The case of mezzanine finance
 The spectrum of financing instruments
 Table 2.1. Alternative financing techniques for SMEs and entrepreneurs. What is mezzanine finance?Table 2.2.Comparison of mezzanine finance and other financing techniques
 Government support to mezzanine finance
 Table 2.3. Typology of public schemes to provide mezzanine finance to SMEs
 Conclusions
 Notes
 References
 Part II Country profiles of SME and entrepreneurship financing 2007-12
 Austria
 Table 3.1. Distribution of firms in Austria, 2010
 Figure 3.1. Growth rates of business loans to non-financial corporations in Austria, 2004-13
 Figure 3.2. Financial structure of SMEs and large firms in Austria, 2011-12. Figure 3.3. Interest rates for new business loans to non-financial corporations in Austria compared to the ECB interest rate for the main refinancing operations, 2003-13Figure 3.4. Credit standards for Austrian non-financial corporations, 2006-13
 Table 3.2. Venture and growth capital investments in Austria, 2007-12
 Table 3.3. Government loan guarantees in Austria, 2007-12
 Table 3.4. Financing for exporting Austrian SMEs by Österreichischer Exportfonds GmbH
 Table 3.5. Risk capital initiatives, Austria
 Table 3.6. Scoreboard for Austria, 2007-12.