Chapter 1: In the Beginning -- Chapter 2: Financial Statement Analysis: What’s Right, What’s Wrong, and Why -- Chapter 3: Cash Flow: Easy Come, Easy Go -- Chapter 4: The Right Frame of Time -- Chapter 5: Capital Structure: Borrow it -- Chapter 6: Capital Structure: Sell it Off -- Chapter 7:...

Joint Ventures Motives in Classical Corporations and REITs: Same or different? -- Why the REIT Act, REIT Capital Structure, and Diversification Needs call for Joint Venture Use -- REIT Joint Venture formations as means for financial flexibility to capture market timing opportunities -- The Role...

Chapter 1: Why Finance Matters for Economics: The Story of Financing the Railroad -- Chapter 2: The Story of the Original Boom and Bust in Western Finance: The Mississippi Bubble -- Chapter 3: Price Determination in a Multi Sector Global Economy -- Chapter 4: Credit Allocation and the Role of...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Alternative Lending and How to Regulate -- Chapter 2: Towards an EU market-based financial system: The emergence of Credit Alternative Investment Funds -- Chapter 3: The need for regulation: Innovation and Market Failure -- Part II: AIF-Lending and Bank Lending...

Chapter 1: Introduction to "Entrepreneurship in Post-Communist Countries: New Drivers towards a Market Economy" -- Part 1: Entrepreneurship in Post-Transition Context -- Chapter 2: The influence of the motives of entrepreneurial activity on economic growth of developing countries in Southeast...

This book presents a business model on how to structure the relationship between financial services and procurement. The need for new models is particularly important to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) where there is an evident difficulty in accessing credit. Due to this context,...

1. The Story of Small Business Lending -- Part I The Problem -- 2. Small Businesses Are Important to the Economy -- 3. Small Businesses and Their Banks: The Impact of the Great Recession -- 4. Structural Obstacles Slow Small Business Lending -- 5. What Small Businesses Want -- Part II The New...

1. Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences: the Role of Financial Studies -- 2. Risk and Pricing on the Italian Minibond Market -- 3. Exploring Factors Influencing the Success of Equity Crowdfunding Campaigns: Findings from Italy -- 4. From seeker side to investor side: gender dynamics in UK equity...

1. Introduction -- 2. Development and Dualism -- 3. Agglomeration, Institutions, and Social Capital: Main Concepts & Methodologies -- 4. Mitigating Dualism and Exploiting the Interplay of Policy-Social Capital -- 5. Summary.