This paper investigates investment performance of microfinance investment funds. The examined funds have recorded lower … revealed that investment in microfinance investment funds that focus especially on debt instruments represents an attractive … investors with a particular interest in the socially responsible aspect of investment into microfinance. …

The study investigates the mutual funds investment style in the Jordanian context. It uses monthly returns of five … a variable that account for momentum effect. These factors are used as benchmarks to investigate the investment style …. The results indicate that mutual funds returns tend to follow those of the market portfolio. In terms of investment style …

In this paper, a model of bounded rational investors investing their portfolio in a passive investment vehicle (e …

United Kingdom and Sweden under the Gold Standard: under stable monetary regimes with clearly defined nominal anchors …

The emergence of the gold standard has for a long time been viewed as inevitable. Fluctuations of the gold … analyze agents' expectations between 1860 and 1890. The intuition is that the spread between gold and silver bonds issued by … requiring a premium to hold silver bonds indicating their belief that gold would eventually become the only metallic standard. …

them to mutualise their gold reserves in emergency situations. Gold reserve sharing was especially important in response to … union. But fortunes could change quickly, with emergency recipients of gold turning into providers. Because regional …

The fast growing EU market for investment funds is still characterised by a continuing relevance of national borders … markets foreign funds lack market success. A better integrated European market for investment funds would provide three kinds …

investment specialization patterns are linked. For example, the specialization in the early stage of enterprises' development … results reject models that assume independence of sources of funds and investment patterns. …