Behavioral finance has emerged as a new paradigm in financial economics. It deals primarily with the influences of psychology on market finance and with market inefficiencies. The field of psychology, already very present in organizational psychology and decision-making, is slowly opening up...

The paper provides a review of features of restructuring strategies, indicating that distress may limit the choice available. It then introduces the decision theory to show that the final choice may be influenced by objective criteria and by subjective or non-rational criteria as well as by...

This paper seeks to determine the criteria for choosing restructuring strategies for declining or distressed enterprises. First, the paper differentiates between different stages of decline and different levels of distress, of which bankruptcy is an application. Second, it reviews the different...

This paper describes the EC directive on capital duties and its evolution or gradual suppressing. The paper is meant to form a chapter on a book on EU taxation. It reviews case law and modifications to the directive

This paper is meant to be a chapter in an eventual book on EU taxation: a chapter which provides preliminary notions required for an understanding of the EU Parents-Subsidiary Directive. Before the parent-subsidiary directive can be studied, it is essential to have notions on international...

The paper examines why capital didn't flow from the rich to the poor. The problems identified are categorized in three broad categories: lack of complementary human capital, information asymmetries and transaction costs for small loan sizes. It explains how moneylenders solve the information...

The purpose of this paper is to improve pedagogical clarity and financial analysis for calculating a firm's sustainable growth rate, a useful concept for firms growing very fast as well as those in finacial distress.The paper is based on a review of literature and text books concerning the...

Microcredit interest costs remain higher than those of commercial banks in spite of significant donor funds, largely owing to transaction costs relative to small loan sizes. With the rise of Web 2.0 and online social interactivity, can these transaction costs be reduced through peer to peer...

In April 2007, a Mexican microfinance company named Banco Compartamos issued shares in a secondary offering IPO. Existing shares were sold at 12 times their book value. The book value itself was 21 times the paid-in-capital. The 21 fold increase in book value was mainly from charging high...