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INDIAN VENTURE CAPITALISTS (VCs) INVESTMENT EVALUATION CRITERIA
Mishra, Asim - EconWPA - 2005
The Venture capital (VC) industry in India is of recent origin. However, the average investment value of each deal in … India have grown from $3.85 million in 2000 to $7.89 million in 2001.These developments together with the recent steps taken … by government to promote venture capitalism in India provide an opportunity for an examination of venture capital …
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Is the Savings and Loan Industry Facing Extinction?
Borde, Stephen F. - 1999
This article discusses the Samp;L crisis. Proposed solutions are discussed in the context of the industry as it currently stands. With a somewhat similar liability structure to that of banks (mainly short-term deposits), the asset structure of Samp;Ls is quite different. Whereas banks assets...
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Bank Performance and the Community Reinvestment Act (Cra) of 1977
Guardino, John - 1999
This study is designed to examine the effect of the CRA on the financial performance of 60 banks. For this sample of banks, performance measures such as return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE), salary expense ratios improve significantly in the five year period after the passage of the...
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Thriving on Adversity : Disclosing Corporate Mistreatment of Consumers Caught in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and Exploring the Consumer Movement's Response to Crisis and Catastroph...
Silber, Norman I. - 2020
Over the last year it has been unexceptional to watch the consumer coverage of problems related to the natural disasters created by the hurricanes. Outside of the Southern states, the national media and leaders of other consumer organizations spent a very large amount of time warning the...
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Current Changes in the Role of the Insurance Sector
Danhel, Jaroslav; Duchackova, Eva - In: ACTA VSFS 7 (2013) 1, pp. 31-45
The authors analyze changes resulting from impacts of the globalization process and the crisis on the financial markets, particularly on the conservative insurance sector, which is forced to accelerate the dynamics of structural changes. The adequacy of the current regulatory measures for the...
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Who Listened? Unappreciated Teachings of New Institutional Economics Related to the Financial Crisis of 2008
Richter, Rudolf - In: Credit and Capital Markets 42 (2009) 4, pp. 473-486
Who was listening before the Financial Crisis of 2008 to Arrow’s warnings and the teachings of Coase? Due to transaction costs, incomplete foresight and bounded rationality not all risks that would be desirable to shift can be shifted through the market. Financial firms and other institutions...
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Contemporary Economics Dilemma: High Ethics or More Extensive Governing?
Daňhel, Jaroslav; Ducháčková, Eva - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2012 (2012) 1, pp. 3-12
The authors of the article point out that economic theory has failed to yield a solid theoretical background in critical situations such as the current financial and economic crisis and the transformation of post-communist economies. Mainly the present crisis opens the question of the...
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On Competition in the Banking Sector in Poland and Europe Before and During the Crisis / Jak kszta³towa³a siê konkurencja w sektorze bankowym w Polsce i w Europie przed kryzysem i...
Pawlowska, Malgorzata - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2015
In the past decades, the banking sector has come to be known in literature as the banking industry as it was geared to increasing profits, banks were growing, and banking products developed dynamically. It was believed that competition in the banking sector makes banks more efficient and...
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What should regulation do in the field of micro-finance?
Sane, Renuka; Thomas, Susan - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) - 2012
Recent events in India have brought a fresh focus on the appropriate regulatory stance towards micro-finance. In this …
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The financial crisis and Indian banks: Survival of the fittest?
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - In: Journal of International Money and Finance 39 (2013) C, pp. 138-152
their money toward government-owned banks and specifically toward the State Bank of India, the largest public bank. While … deposits toward the State Bank of India cannot be explained by these factors alone. Rather it appears that the implicit …
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