This paper introduces crowdfunding as a concept and model for the evolution of investment banking. Crowdfunding, an … application of crowdsourcing, is defined as one party’s attempt to finance a project by offering three types of investment … opportunities to potential investors. The investment opportunities are donations, passive investments, and active investments. From …

We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian … random walk benchmark in an out-of-sample environment. Second, lags of investment growth, crude oil price growth and realized … volatility is found to be adequate predictors for the investment growth. Finally, there is a clear benefit from re-estimating the …

data and triple-difference estimators, we find that this dividend tax cut affects allocation of corporate investment. Cash …-constrained firms increase investment after the dividend tax cut relative to cash-rich firms. Reallocation is stronger among closely … and by higher dividends in cash-rich firms after the tax cut. The heterogeneous investment responses imply that the …

We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian … random walk benchmark in an out-of-sample environment. Second, lags of investment growth, crude oil price growth and realized … volatility is found to be adequate predictors for the investment growth. Finally, there is a clear benefit from re-estimating the …

This report is an annex to wiiw Research Report 423, 'Economic Challenges of Lagging Regions III Recent Investment … Trends and Needs'. Based on spatial econometric methods, it provides estimates and simulations of the investment effects on …

outcome heterogeneity where the treatment outcome depends on applicant investment. The model takes into account heterogeneous …