This article considers an international sample of venture capital and private equity funds to assess the role of law, corruption, and culture in setting fund manager fees. With better legal conditions, fixed fees are lower, carried interest fees are higher, clawbacks are less likely, and share...

This paper considers an international sample of venture capital and private equity funds to assess the role of law, corruption and culture in setting fund manager fees in terms of their fixed management fees, carried interest performance fees, clawbacks of fees and cash versus share...

This paper presents a theory for Islamic venture capital namely ‘Mudharabah’ contract under adverse selection problem. In order to avoid selecting a low type entrepreneur for a given good project, the framework defines the profit sharing ratio (PSR) as a screening device. We then develop a...

This paper presents a theory for Islamic venture capital namely ‘Mudharabah’ contract under adverse selection problem. In order to avoid selecting a low type entrepreneur for a given good project, the framework defines the profit sharing ratio (PSR) as a screening device. We then develop a...

L'article présente le document publié par le Comité de Bâle, redéfinissant le champ de la fonction "compliance".

This paper considers an international sample of conventional and Islamic mutual funds to assess whether law, culture, and political risk affect the performance, risk-taking behavior and compensation fees of mutual funds. Overall, the results show strongly that legal conditions, culture, and...

Les critiques de la finance contemporaine portent en grande partie sur le comportement de nouveaux acteurs financiers comme les hedge funds, les fonds de private equity et les fonds souverains. Jean-Hervé Lorenzi et Philippe Trainar nous aident ici à discerner les fantasmes de la réalité en...

This paper considers an international sample of conventional and Islamic mutual funds to assess whether law, culture and political risk affect their compensation fees and expense ratio. The data are hand-collected from many sources. Overall, the results show strongly that legal conditions,...