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INDIAN VENTURE CAPITALISTS (VCs) INVESTMENT EVALUATION CRITERIA

Mishra, Asim - EconWPA - 2005

The Venture capital (VC) industry in India is of recent origin. However, the average investment value of each deal in … India have grown from $3.85 million in 2000 to $7.89 million in 2001.These developments together with the recent steps taken … by government to promote venture capitalism in India provide an opportunity for an examination of venture capital …

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Equity Allocation and Portfolio Selection in Insurance: A simplified Portfolio Model

Taflin, Erik - EconWPA - 1999

A quadratic discrete time probabilistic model, for optimal portfolio selection in (re-)insurance is studied. For positive values of underwriting levels, the expected value of the accumulated result is optimized, under constraints on its variance and on annual ROE's. Existence of a unique...

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Extreme Moves in Foreign Exchange Rates and Risk Limit Setting

Dacorogna, Michel; Blum, Peter - EconWPA - 2003

Foreign exchange rates can be subject to considerable daily fluctuations (up to 5 percent within one day). This can, in certain cases, cause serious losses on open overnight positions. Given a maximum tolerable loss for a company, limits have to be set on open overnight positions in foreign...

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The U-shaped Investment Curve: Theory and Evidence

Cleary, Sean; Povel, Paul; Raith, Michael - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines how the investment of financially constrained firms varies with their level of internal funds. We develop a theoretical model of optimal investment under financial constraints. Our model endogenizes the costs of external funds and allows for negative levels of internal funds....

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Does Ownership Structure Influence Firm Value? Evidence from India

Kumar, Jayesh - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the effect of ownership structure on the firm performance for an unbalanced panel of 2478 Indian corporate firms from 1994 to 2000. We examine the effect of interactions between corporate, foreign, institutional, and managerial ownership on firm performance. Using panel data...

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An Empirical Analysis of Market Reaction Around the Bonus Issues in India

Mishra, Asim - EconWPA - 2005

Past researches have revealed significant abnormal returns for bonus issues even though the bonus issue date is known in advance and the distribution contains no new information. This study examines the stock price reaction to the information content of bonus issues with a view of examining the...

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“The Consumer Financing Business in India” – Building Blocks for the Future

Gupta, Akash; Agarwal, Rahul - EconWPA - 2004

In view of this changing landscape, we look at the three major drivers of growth in consumer finance: auto finance, housing finance and consumer durable finance. We discuss the trends in each of these areas as well as the shortcomings which are slowing down growth. We present some of the...

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Gains and losses: the same or different choices? A “non-ideal” economics approach.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Ideal economics? A “non-ideal” economics approach has been proposed, which considers the possibility of arrangement infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields of research. The approach application in...

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Modeling the risk process in the XploRe computing environment

Burnecki, Krzysztof; Weron, Rafal - EconWPA - 2005

A user friendly approach to modeling the risk process is presented. It utilizes the insurance library of the XploRe computing environment which is accompanied by on-line, hyperlinked and freely downloadable from the web manuals and e-books. The empirical analysis for Danish ﬁre losses for the...

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Arrangement Infringement Possibility Approach: Some Economic Features of Large-Scale Events

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2004

The definition of arrangement infringement has been given. Several characteristics of hurricanes as large-scale events and objectives for the first stages of insurance data analysis have been sketched out. Scale hypotheses, insurance and investment problems have been formulated.

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