This book provides coherent theoretical and empirical analysis of firms' investment and financing decisions. It … results confirm theoretical precedents. Some firms are indeed financially constrained, for fixed investment as well as for R … in closely controlled companies. In accordance with the real option theory, the results suggest that uncertainty leads …

Botelho -- 5. Women business angels: theory and practice / Frances M. Amatucci -- 6. Investment decision making by business … examine business angels themselves, the evolution of the market, the various stages of the investment process and the role of … public policy in influencing angel investment. They each conclude their chapters with an agenda for future research on …

Israel's Yozma Program -- 6. Institutional support for investment in new technologies : the role of venture capital … institutions in developing countries -- 7. Financial systems, investment in innovation, and venture capital : the case of China … : investment characteristics and value-added activities -- 10. High-tech venture capital investment in a small transition country …

"Covering pertinent areas of sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) this forward-looking book examines SRI in … investment strategies and philosophies that attempt to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns into … investment decision-making. In turn it provides an in-depth review of a number of different motivations for SRI, including …

difficult. This book attempts to provide a deeper understanding of the interaction between investment, knowledge spillovers and … empirical evidence regarding the spatial dimension of investment, entrepreneurship and knowledge spillovers, and features both …-country investment. Innovative methodologies and unique new models are then used to provide lessons and policy implications for economic …

explores the fundamental theoretical basis of highway finance, in particular the use of tolls, and supports that theory with …

economic models -- 4. Investment : liquid real capital versus liquid assets -- 5. Why liquidity preference? -- 6. Financial … markets, liquidity and fast exits -- 7. Planned investment, planned savings, liquidity and economic growth -- 8. Complicating …

This book presents an up-to-date overview of the theory as well as the empirics of the relationship between investment … investment theory, professionals in the financial sector and students of macroeconomics and finance. Investment, Capital Market …, the authors discuss both traditional investment models with uncertainty and the more modern option based models. They …