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The financial crisis has fueled interest in alternatives to traditional asset classes that might be less affected by large market gyrations and, thus, provide for a less volatile development of a portfolio. One attempt at selecting stocks that are less prone to extreme risks, is obeyance of...
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Developing entrepreneurship among students and helping them to build their career plans and improving their … intention and career choices? Our research aims to demonstrate that entrepreneurship is an objective which relies entirely on …
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sources of financing. In order to evaluate the performance of incubators in France, we questioned 404 entrepreneurs in 80 …
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new type of financing has recently appeared in Europe and in particular in France: the crowdfunding. It is a method for … building a theoretical framework to explain its success. We also discuss some more practical issues to enhance crowdfunding in …
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This paper deals with elective surgery planning under several scarce resources. We use a Mixed Integer Program model to determine the best admission policy at the tactical level, with the objective of minimising the weighted deviations of the expected resources consumptions from their target...
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and financing sources. Our results also highlight the positive effect of not being alone in the start-up design phase … appears to be a type of “pecking order” as bank financing has a much more positive effect on survival than a personal one …
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mediated by the process of innovation. Our paper extends the theoritical and empirical researches on entrepreneurship by …
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This study assesses whether the undertaken reforms in the microfinance industry in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) have promoted sustainability or outreach. To this purpose we use a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the social efficiency on the one hand and the...
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The relationship between financial development and economic growth is not conclusive in existing economics literature. The aim of this paper is to test two hypotheses: ‘supply-leading’ hypothesis and ‘demand-following’ hypothesis, using Laos time series data. The ARDL bounds testing...
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Discussion of Islamic private equity (PE) financing modes rarely provides detailed analytical insights into their …) financing methods can solve asymmetric information problems. I focus on Mudarabah and Musharakah financing schemes and consider … agency models under moral hazard. The model shows some interesting results. First, I show that Mudarabah financing provide …
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