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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 … performance. In the light of the differences in investment opportunities around India, and the nature of industrial development in … South East Asia in general, the author anticipated that the investment criteria employed by Venture Capital Firms (VCs) in …
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Efficiency and Information Aggregation in Auctions with Costly Information
Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002
Consider an auction in which $k$ identical objects are sold to $nk$ bidders who each have a value for one object which can have both private and common components to it. Private information concerning the common component of the object is not exogenously given, but rather endogenous and bidders...
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Agent Behaviour, Financial Market and Welfare Theory
Paranque, Bernard; Baets, Walter; Pruden, Henry - EconWPA - 2005
could be in the contract theory but more a through out line to help us to coordinate a collective action …
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Building a Better Fund of Hedge Funds: A Fractal and Alpha - Stable Distribution Approach
Olszewski, Yan - EconWPA - 2005
Markowitz’s (1952) portfolio theory has permeated financial institutions over the past 50 years. Assuming that returns are normally distributed, Markowitz suggests that portfolio optimization should be performed in a mean-variance framework. With the emergence of hedge funds and their...
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Do Ads Influence Editors? Advertising and Bias in the Financial Media
Reuter, Jonathan; Zitzewitz, Eric - EconWPA - 2005
We use mutual fund recommendations to test whether editorial content is independent from advertisers’ influence in the financial media. We find that major personal finance magazines (Money, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, and SmartMoney) are more likely to recommend funds from families that...
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Relative Performance Evaluation Contracts and Asset Market Equilibrium
Kapur, Sandeep; Timmermann, Allan - EconWPA - 2004
delegate their investment to better-informed fund managers; if they delegate they choose the parameters of the optimal contract …
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Het integraal kwantificeren van valutarisico’s
Haas, Ralph de - EconWPA - 2002
In dit artikel wordt ingegaan op het statistisch kwantificeren van valutarisico’s met behulp van meervoudige regressie-analyse. Centraal punt van deze methode is dat, teneinde een integrale kwantificering van valutarisico’s te bereiken, zowel het translatierisico als het economisch...
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Optimization of Risk Exposure
Gretchikha, Alexei - EconWPA - 2002
Risk exposure can be efficiently optimized in practical situations, using a new apporach to identification of investor's risk aversion.
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SECURITIES MARKETS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL INTEGRATION IN AFRICA: RISKS AND POLICY OPTIONS
NWAOBI, GODWIN - EconWPA - 2005
The need to develop securities market has, following the recent international financial crises, increasingly attracted the attention of national and international policy makers. Never before have developed and developing countries shared such a strong interest in ensuring the stable growth of...
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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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