This paper aims to open a new avenue for research in continuoustimenancial market models with endogenous prices and heterogenousinvestors. The main result is the derivation of the limit of a discretetimeevolutionary stock market model as the length of the time periodtends to zero.[...]

There are noticeable differences between the roles that various forms of credit financing play in family businesses and in other businesses. Family businesses take out more often bank loans specifically to finance investments and innovations, and they particularly often resort to the short-term...

Behavoiral finance as a subdiscipline of behavorial economics is finance incorporating findings from psychology and sociology into its theories.

We analyze the life-cycle patterns of a firm's financing decisions and their interaction with future growth and development decisions. The framework derives three different financing sequences (debt-debt, equity-debt, equity-equity financing) which we link to existing empirical research....