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Blue-collar crime and finance
Bernales, Alejandro; Beuermann, Diether W.; Cumming, … - 2019
Relatively little is known about the effects of blue-collar crime (theft, robbery, vandalism or arson) on financial decisions. Previous literature has focused its attention either on 'regional' crime rates or the 'perception' of crime as business obstacles. Instead, we examine financing terms of...
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Finance and growth at the firm level : evidence from SBA loans
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - In: The journal of finance : the journal of the American … 72 (2017) 3, pp. 1039-1080
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Roscher’s Victorian views on financial development
Hudson, Michael - In: Journal of Economic Studies 22 (1995) September, pp. 187-208
Focuses on Roscher's generalities in the financial realm. Roscher postulated a secular decline in interest rates and an evolution of credit towards increasingly productive applications. Although Roscher's theories were plausible, questions whether he got his causes and effects right. If not, of...
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The link between Islamic banking and microfinancing
Shahinpoor, Nasrin - In: International Journal of Social Economics 36 (2009) September, pp. 996-1007
compatible since microfinance allows interest payments on loans and Islamic banking prohibits interest payment based on Islamic … entrepreneurship by giving collateral-free loans to the poor. The two practices, therefore, are ideologically linked. This paper shows …
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Roscher’s Victorian views on financial development
Hudson, Michael - In: Journal of Economic Studies 22 (1995) 3/4/5, pp. 187-208
Focuses on Roscher′s generalities in the financial realm. Roscher postulated a secular decline in interest rates and an evolution of credit towards increasingly productive applications. Although Roscher′s theories were plausible, questions whether he got his causes and effects right. If not,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014863889
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The link between Islamic banking and microfinancing
Shahinpoor, Nasrin - In: International Journal of Social Economics 36 (2009) 10, pp. 996-1007
compatible since microfinance allows interest payments on loans and Islamic banking prohibits interest payment based on Islamic … entrepreneurship by giving collateral‐free loans to the poor. The two practices, therefore, are ideologically linked. This paper shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805561
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Financing social enterprise: social bricolage or evolutionary entrepreneurialism?
Sunley, Peter; Pinch, Steven - In: Social Enterprise Journal 8 (2012) 2, pp. 108-122
sources and shifted towards loans and development finance in recent years. The paper seeks to consider the underlying reasons … bricolage” implies SEs do not seek conventional business loans or equity finance, because they survive in resource poor … for a limited demand for loans by comparing two theoretical perspectives on SE development. The concept of “social …
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Lack of affordable housing finance in Malawi's major urban areas
Chapinduka Nyasulu, E.; Cloete, C.E. - In: Property Management 25 (2007) 1, pp. 54-67
Purpose – The purpose of this research is to investigate the unaffordability of housing and limited access to finance …/methodology/approach – Primary data were collected by means of questionnaires followed up by semi‐structured personal interviews. These interviews … were conducted with all major role players in the urban housing finance industry. Secondary data were obtained through …
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The business activities of Jewish women entrepreneurs in medieval England
Berman Brown, Reva; McCartney, Sean - In: Management Decision 39 (2001) 9, pp. 699-709
Recounts how medieval English Jewry began when Jews were invited to immigrate by William I and ended with their expulsion by Edward I in 1290. The Jewish community was important and for most of its existence it was prosperous, owing to its particular social function – being the bankers,...
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Can shareholder rights protection reduce corruption in lending?
Dheera-aumpon, Siwapong - In: International journal of monetary economics and finance 8 (2015) 2, pp. 178-190
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