The purpose of this article is to present the factors and phenomena resulting from the interaction of economic entities (entrepreneurs and consumers), which determine the level of investment attractiveness for venture capital funds. The activities are aimed at identifying which sectors and...

The risk of labor market, health, and asset-value shocks comprise profound retirement savings challenges for older workers. Parents, however, may experience added risk if their children experience adverse labor market shocks. Prior research has shown that parents support their children...

There are many concerns about financial competences of Millennials. Initial research on this generation suggests that it is less financially knowledgeable and exhibits less healthy financial behaviours compared to other generations. The goal of the article is to compare Millennials to...

This paper presents the impact of decreasing MFI interest rates on household deposits and saving goals in 12 Monetary Union member countries in the years 2009-2015. It analyses tendencies in household deposits (overnight, with agreed maturity and redeemable at notice), and attempts to link them...

Zusätzliche private Altersvorsorge, komplexe Finanzprodukte und niedrige Zinsen fordern Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher heraus, sich stärker mit Finanzthemen zu befassen. Vorgestellt wird das Konzept der Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe im Bereich der finanziellen Bildung. Der ganzheitliche,...

The dynamic development of the mortgage market, especially in the period before the current financial crisis, revealed that within the EU there are local mortgage credit markets and that it is necessary to harmonize the rules of the system and consumer protection within the Community. The...

Although one of the primary objectives of microfinance has been the reduction of poverty through the provision of credit for income-generating purposes, evidence of its impact on poverty has been mixed. Even if there is no direct impact of microfinance, there may be an indirect positive impact...

The article relates to the attractiveness of FX housing loans for households which led to over increase in EU countries. Results of comparative analysis conducted for Poland, Austria, Romania and Hungary indicates that actions taken by the supervisory bodies dedicated to demand indicators...

In adjustable interest loans the borrower assumes the risk of interest rate rising, which leads to the growth of loan annuities. Given the importance of this risk in both corporate and personal finance, it is a recurrent topic in economic and financial press. In this paper, we show that the...

This article aims to identify the most relevant variables that allow through a neural network model (RNA), with supervised learning, in a kind of error correction and feedforward perceptron multilayer architecture to achieve the best predictors of low risk, in the process of microcredit....