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In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, new financial technology (fintech) start-ups have emerged to challenge …, we investigate how the emergence of fintech start-ups and their financing is shaped by new regional knowledge creation …. While we find that knowledge generated in the IT sector is much more salient for fostering new fintech start-ups than …
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Financial literacy is a program for enhancing individuals' decision-making and an assumption made about the sovereignty of the individual. In its most optimistic form, financial literacy would empower individuals to achieve their financial goals and objectives. It would do so by providing...
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Spurred on by the recent financial crises, a growing number of institutional investors are working to bypass traditional financial intermediaries, agents and centers through the development of in-house teams of investment professionals. As such, the institutional investment community, which is...
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Squeezed between increasing entitlement expenditures and static or declining real revenues, state-funded urban development is increasingly an unaffordable luxury. At the same time, the power and significance of the banking sector is giving way to new kinds of financial institutions that have...
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With the collapse of the TMT bubble and a number of high-profile scandals of corporate governance around the world, the language of finance is being re-written to include market inefficiency. Not surprisingly, there is an increasing premium on market information - national and international. As...
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In a previous paper we emphasised the changing national and international accounting standards used to measure net pension liability. Beginning with the implications of this analysis for the financing of German employer-sponsored pensions, in this paper we focus upon the internal management of...
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If its prospects were doubted in the early 1990s, London is now the preeminent international financial centre. It dominates its European rivals, and is joined with New York in a non-stop reciprocal global embrace. Whereas some analysts approach this topic concentrating on the nature and quality...
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