Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Věra Mulačová Title: The Financial and Economic Crisis and SMEs Abstract: This paper picked a topic of small and medium-sized enterprises to highlight several related problems. It is dedicated to the characteristics of small to medium enterprises, its definition and role within financial and economic crisis and present recession. There are analysis and comparison of their development during the last five or ten years in the Czech Republic and EU. The data based on which the analyses and comparison were carried out was obtained from the public databases and other cited sources. The paper is trying to respond to the question: “How is the development of SMEs dependent on business?” Finanční a ekonomická krize a MSP Keywords: small and medium-sized enterprises, financial and economic crisis, business cycle, malé a střední podnikání, finanční a ekonomická krize, ekonomický cyklus Journal: Littera Scripta Volume: 5 Issue: 2 Year: 2012 Month: May DOI: 10.36708/LS.2012.I02.008 File-URL: https://littera-scripta.com/articles/the-financial-and-economic-crisis-and-smes-b0733962 File-Format: text/html Handle: RePEc:rsg:littra:2012-013