Crowdfunding has mostly been used to finance very unique projects. Recently, however, companies have begun using it to finance more traditional products where they compete against other sellers of similar products. Major crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter and Indiegogo, as well as Amazon have...

The European sovereign debt crisis illustrated how the stability of the entire financial system suffers when banks and sovereigns become too intertwined. However, there has been seemingly little success in reducing the bank-sovereign nexus in the decade since the crisis. As this Weekly Report...

The aim of this research is to develop a conceptual model that includes variables related to financing modes, risk-taking, efficiency, and Islamic bank profitability in GCC Countries. The results indicate that the total effect of financing modes on banks' profitability is high and statistically...

The paper investigates the determinants of working capital to forecast the future requirement of working capital of BSE-listed top 150 companies in India. The study is conducted by collecting the data of 150 top-performing BSE listed companies for the time period of 2009-2017. The ten firm-level...

The development of a knowledge economy is a key priority for innovative progress and for ensuring the country's competitiveness through the efficient use of intellectual resources and human capital. Our paper is focused on a necessity to find out the influence of human capital in providing...

This paper investigates the impact of macroprudential policies and uncertainty of economic environment on corporate leverage dynamics over the last decade. This is the first study to investigate the impact of macroprudential policies and uncertainty on leverage dynamics of Turkish non-financial...

The paper examines the influence of the business cycle on working capital management strategies based on evidence from the Polish corporate sector. By exploring the interrelation between working capital investment and profitability ratios, we attempt to define the respective transmission...

Im Laufe der letzten Jahrzehnte ist es zu einer grundlegenden Veränderung von Narrativen hinsichtlich der Gewinnerzielung von Unternehmen gekommen. Dabei wurde die neoklassische Grundidee, dass Unternehmen nach Gewinnmaximierung streben, in den Anspruch auf eine Mindesteigenkapitalrendite...

The main objective of this paper is to analyze one of the alternative sources of financing - equity crowdfunding - from the point of view of managerial processes. Based on the case study analysis and the comparative analysis the problems and challenges of raising funds using equity crowdfunding...

The purpose of this study is to assess model risk with respect to parameter estimation for a simple binary logistic regression model applied as a predictive model. The assessment is done by comparing the effectiveness of eleven different parameter estimation methods. The results from the...