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This book presents an up-to-date overview of the theory as well as
the empirics of the relationship between investment, financial
imperfections and uncertainty. After reviewing the capital market
imperfections literature and the empirical results, the authors
discuss both traditional investment models with uncertainty and the
more modern option based models. They present an overview of
empirical results of the modelling of investment under uncertainty.
In these examples, the effects of capital market imperfections on
investment are carefully considered. The authors conclude that
there is overwhelming empirical support for a negative
uncertainty-investment relationship. This innovative book will
appeal to academics with an interest in investment theory,
professionals in the financial sector and students of
macroeconomics and finance. Investment, Capital Market
Imperfections, and Uncertainty assumes only a basic knowledge of
mathematics and is easily accessible.
This book explores current digitalization issues in finance and
accounting with particular focus on emerging and transitioning
markets. It features models, empirical studies and cases studies on
topics such as Fintech, blockchain technology, financing renewable
energy, and XBRL usage from sectors such health care, pharmacology,
transportation, and education. Such a complex view of current
economic phenomena makes the volume attractive not only for
academia, but also for regulators and policy-makers, when
deliberating the potential outcome of competing regulatory
mechanisms.
Intangible assets are of growing importance to corporate
competitiveness and economic performance. They include R&D,
human capital, innovation in products and in organisation,
trademarks and patents, networking and software. This path-breaking
book provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of intangible
investment and its effect on public policy in Europe. The authors
find that the growing importance of intangibles is transforming the
direction of public policies in Europe, particularly industrial,
R&D, competition and trade policies. They conclude that
government policies must recognise the fact that intangible
investment is becoming the key element in bringing about durable
growth and accord at least the same priority to intangible factors
as to physical investment. This work should be essential reading
for students interested in this new field of economic analysis,
national and international policymakers, and industrialists
involved in the non-physical economy.
The purpose of this book is to study the association of corporate
environmental responsibility (CER) with financial performance,
capital structure, innovative activities, corporate risk, working
capital management and accounting quality. Undoubtedly, CER has
been developed into a crucial corporate issue around the world. CER
has been incorporated within various sectors, countries and
includes many types of activities and dimensions. A fundamental
issue that is addressed in this book, is how corporate finance and
accounting are affected by CER activities and how it impacts
company performance. In order to analyse this interrelation, the
authors focus on a sample of firms from 28 EU member countries. The
purpose of this book is to study the association of CER with
financial performance, capital structure, innovative activities,
corporate risk, working capital management and accounting quality.
The book also intends to provide useful policy recommendations as
well as to offer constructive impulses for future research.
The relationship between public investment and regional economic
development is of perennial interest and is particularly topical
now as issues of infrastructure and innovation are high on policy
agendas in many countries. Public investment is often viewed as a
possible method for 'jump-starting' lagging regional economies and
also as a requirement for the continued development of more
prosperous regions. Public Investment and Regional Economic
Development provides a systematic analysis of the complex
relationship between public investment and regional economic
development. The authors offer new insights into the key issues of
regional growth, and present a broad variety of perspectives
ranging from transport and housing infrastructure through to human
capital and innovation. With contributions from leading regional
scientists, and each themed section of the book prefaced with an
editorial introduction to ensure coherence, this illuminating book
is sure to offer policymakers new research insights into key issues
of regional growth. Academics and researchers of urban and regional
planning, geography and economic development will also find the
book of great interest.
Having the big idea is merely the beginning. Raising and using
venture capital is pivotal to the success of many an ambitious new
venture, but venture capital is more than money. It's far too
expensive to be treated merely as cash, and if used well, far more
critical to the successful venture.This can be a daunting process.
Smarter Ventures leads you inside the world of European venture
capital, and takes you step-by-step through the venture cycle. By
holding a mirror up to both sides of the money-raising process,
Katharine Campbell shows how entrepreneurs can better understand
venture capitalists - and vice versa - leading to more productive
relationships and smarter ventures. Katharine Campbell explains how
venture capitalists think, what they are looking for and why. Learn
how to spot the good -and the bad - investors, and equip yourself
with the tools and the knowledge to seal a successful partnership.
Smarter Ventures is the bible of the European venture capital
market and your complete companion to the venture cycle. "Smarter
Ventures is essential reading for anyone interested and involved in
new ventures and venture capital - whether funding it, using it,
providing it or teaching potential entrepreneurs.... The book is so
complete it is almost a funding cookbook.... Anyone involved in
enterprise, as a practitioner, venture capitalist or academic,
should regard Smarter Ventures as required reading." - Book Review,
Financial Times
Since the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, there has been a
growing interest among policy makers towards the more active role
of the state in the enterprise sector. This book provides valuable
insight into the changing role of state-owned enterprises in
economic policy, a topic at the cross section of several
interrelated, but usually independent research streams first of all
transition research, varieties of capitalism literature, public
choice approach and institutionalism studies. With the existing
literature on state ownership concentrating on the developed
economies and on selected emerging economies, this book fills an
important gap in focusing on the post-communist transition
countries. The Polish experience is looked at in a comparative
perspective of selected transition countries, which deserve special
attention as they had to cope with a radical change of their
economic policies towards the enterprise sector. This book will be
valuable reading for academics in economic policy, transition
economics, and institutional economics, and policy makers and
practitioners in EU bodies and emerging economies.
Public administration is under increasing pressure to become more
efficient, better geared to the demands and opinions of citizens,
more open to contacts with transnational bureaucracies, and more
responsive to the ideas of elected policymakers. Bureaucracy in the
Modern State offers a comparative analysis of how these challenges
affect public administration in France, the United States, Germany,
Japan, Britain, Sweden and the developing countries of the Third
World. Specialist chapters written by acknowledged experts on the
public policy of each country are brought together in a comparative
framework in order to assess the impact of recent changes on the
relationship between policy makers and the civil service, and the
organizational challenges presented by the introduction of
market-based ideology. Assessing public administration from a
state-society perspective, the authors focus on four basic factors
which they believe determine the role of the bureaucracy in modern
societies: the configuration of the state, the relationship between
policymakers and the bureaucracy, the internal organizational
dynamics of the bureaucracy, and the relationship between the
public bureaucracy and civil society. A special analysis of the
relationship between domestic and transnational bureaucracies is
also included, with particular reference made to the European
Union. Addressing one of the key public policy issues of our time,
this book will be widely used by teachers, students and researchers
who will welcome the combination of in-depth studies of selected
countries, from capitalist democracies to developing countries,
with an authoritative comparative analysis held together by a
distinct theoretical framework.
This timely book provides an authoritative analysis of the pension
reform process in nine countries, namely Australia, Canada, France,
Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK and USA, with
Japan being covered in the introduction by the editors. The book
draws on the work of experts from each of these countries to
provide a picture of how the pension systems work in each country.
The contributors examine the policy reform process in each country,
against the background of the fiscal stresses arising from the
ageing populations in OECD countries. They also analyse whether
different types of pension delivery systems (e.g. the
public-private mix) generate different standards of living. Each
study is prepared according to a common template allowing
meaningful analysis of pension delivery and outcomes across
countries using similar macroeconomic statistics and microdata.
Pension Systems and Retirement Incomes across OECD Countries is an
extremely valuable and empirically sound book on a highly topical
subject. It will appeal to scholars of economics, public policy,
political science and finance as well as being of great interest to
policymakers and practitioners involved in pension fund management.
In recent decades, local government has become increasingly
complex. The Political Economy of Local Government draws upon
recent developments in economics, including new institutional
economics, and contemporary advances in the theories of social
capital and leadership, in order to explain local government policy
formulation. The authors go beyond the study of local public goods
to explore the sources of market failure and examine whether local
authorities are more susceptible to certain types of government
failure. In addition, a transaction cost analysis of markets,
hierarchies and networks is applied to ascertain the comparative
institutional advantage local authorities might have in the supply
of local governance. The book also considers the extent of the
influence that these recent advances in the theories of social
capital and leadership have on the process and implementation of
local government policy. This book offers a fresh and readily
accessible perspective on the political economy of local government
policy making, and will be of particular interest to students and
practitioners of economics, political science, public
administration, policy studies and local government.
This research review assesses the ground-breaking contributions to
the evolution of knowledge in the economics of risk and time, from
its early twentieth-century explorations to its current diversity
of approaches. The analysis focuses first on the basic decisions
under uncertainty, and then on asset pricing. It further discusses
both classical expected utility approach and its non-expected
utility generalizations, with applications to dynamic portfolio
choices, insurance, risk sharing, and risk prevention. This review
will be valuable for scholars in finance and macroeconomics,
particularly those with an interest in the modeling foundations of
consumer and investor decisions under uncertainty.
Emerging economies arguably have different socio-fiscal dynamics
compared to developed economies. On one side they have the need for
corporate interventions in national development, on the other hand,
they do not have enough research to support the agenda. In recent
times there has been a conscious effort to legislate Corporate
Social Responsibility (CSR) in some of these countries in order to
bring about sustainable development. Yet, it is this legislation,
which is debated among many others. This book provides its readers
with a comprehensive interpretation of the various CSR perspectives
in emerging economies through academic research and case studies
from practice. It not only points out the challenges, the debates,
but also the dynamics of implementation and the impact of such CSR
spent. This book therefore is targeted both towards academics as
well as practitioners in an attempt to bring about an active
academic-industry interface as CSR as a management function is part
of dynamic social science.
Acquisitions are one of the most powerful tools in the business
armoury, but they can also be positively dangerous. Conducting
thorough due diligence is one of the most effective ways to reduce
the risk involved in acquisition and investment, and to improve the
chances of success. Due diligence is a term traditionally used for
the review process applied to an acquisition. In recent times, the
practice has evolved substantially and the level of detail and
analysis now possible allows companies to take better development
decisions.Well conducted due diligence can help a transaction to
proceed smoothly, and can even enable companies to find ways of
adding value to acquisitions and other partnerships. Any
transaction is highly risky ? at least 50% of acquisitions fail and
numerous other partnerships end in disappointment and acrimony. Due
diligence is the essential step to taking the risk out of deals and
business partnerships. This book is a concise, comprehensive guide
to the process, containing practical advice, accessible analysis,
and case studies.
In today s global society, microfinance affords lower income
individuals the opportunity to improve their economic situation
through a democratic, market-based process. Advanced Technologies
for Microfinance: Solutions and Challenges is the first book to
systematically address technology s impact on microfinance. It
discusses a wide variety of technology applications that will
define the next generation of the microfinance movement and it
addresses the tough questions surrounding technology in
microfinance. For instance, what are the disadvantages of
technology-enabled microfinance and what will it mean for the
inclusiveness and empowerment of the service? This dynamic
collection is a must-have for anyone interested in microfinance,
whether you are a donor, lender, or investor.
This book provides an overview of the historical financial reforms
and regulatory changes in China, highlighting the background to and
causes of changes in the income structure of China's banks. It also
investigates ongoing concerns with regard to banking
diversification in China, and its consequences, amid the global
trend of banks' shift to non-traditional businesses. Focusing on
three critical aspects of bank-income diversification, namely the
effects on profitability, risk level, and efficiency, it employs
the concept of systemically important banks, which describes the
scale and degree of influence a bank has in global and domestic
financial markets. More importantly, rather than replicating
techniques employed in the research on developed markets, it
applies several improved methodologies to address bank
diversification in the specific context created by China's unique
institutional background and data characteristics, such as GMM-type
threshold models and stochastic frontier analysis with the within
maximum likelihood estimation. Shedding new light on the current
status of income diversification in the Chinese banking sector,
this book is a valuable resource for readers in fields such as
banking and financial stability. It will also help banking
professionals and financial regulatory authorities to better
understand the reform of China's financial industry and the future
direction of banking.
This second edition updates and extends the original foundations of
the loanable funds model. It develops a new monetary model of
inside money, which is created by the commercial (or retail) banks,
drawing on the events of 2007/08 that led to the Great Recession
and fragile economy of today. Coronavirus is likely to cause
another downturn of economic activity, from the perspective of late
2020 as this is written. That will represent a long-period of
subpar, anaemic growth, which has not been satisfactorily explained
by the traditional theory in the form of neo-classical analysis.
The reason may lie with the adoption of a body of theory based
primarily on a barter system of exchange but sometimes with one
commodity used as money to try to explain a dynamic, monetary
economy of today. Money has evolved from a system of barter to
become a medium of exchange based on fiat money and credit currency
underpinned by legal tender, and therefore, a creature of law. If
households and firms lose confidence in the banking system, they
can withdraw their deposits in the form of cash as a medium of
exchange, which must be accepted in exchange for goods and services
as legal tender. This book highlights the importance of how money
is created or destroyed endogenously and derives the loanable
supply of funds in conjunction with the demand within a revised
analysis of monetary theory, with a new emphasis on portfolio
theory. It applies critical thinking and the realization of a more
precise formulation of the loanable funds theory to final year and
postgraduate students in particular, with various features
systematically added such as the catastrophe framework and Minsky's
theory of changing states in an attempt to derive a fully dynamic
model. There is a new framework using aggregate demand and supply
analysis to explain inflation. This will be reinforced at each
stage by the inclusion of revised and updated case studies, graphs
and figures to give an international setting and application
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