This paper explores the landscape, contributions, and determinants of sovereign wealth funds' long-term investments in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study finds that of all regions, Africa receives the lowest share of investment from sovereign wealth funds, and the landscape is dominated by Asian...

This research proposes new estimations of the Fama-French three- and five-factor models via a machine learning approach. Speci fically, it uses a Bayesian optimization-support vector regression (BSVR) approach to obtain predictions of portfolio returns. On data from fi ve industries' portfolio...

l'objectif de cette recherche est de développer un modèle de Credit Scoring en utilisant un échantillon de 269 emprunteurs individuels de l'institution de micro-finance Nyèsigiso au Mali. Les résultats ont montré l'importance de la relation de long terme, du taux d'intérêt, des coûts de...