The pharmaceutical industry discovers, develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceutical drugs for use as medications to be administered (or self-administered) to patients, with the aim to cure them, vaccinate them, or alleviate the symptoms. Pharmaceutical companies may deal in generic or...

Discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis is a method of valuing security, project, firm, or asset using the time value of money. All future cash flows are estimated and discounted by using the cost of capital to express their present values. Cash flows in the numerator of the formula need to keep an...

Video games are an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback for a player. The typologies range from action games to adventure, role-playing, strategy, or sport games. Digitalization and web channels of fruition are embedded in most business...

Financial technology (FinTech) is an industry composed of diversified companies that use technology to make financial services more efficient. Fintech is recognized as one of the most critical innovations in the financial industry and is evolving at a rapid speed, driven in part by the sharing...

Digital art uses digital technology as part of the creative process or exhibition presentation. Crypto art is linked to blockchain technology and concerns certified digital artworks. Valuation profiles take their cues from the metrics traditionally used for copyright (royalty monetization or...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to detect how Value for Money (VfM) in Italian Project Finance (PF) investments can be enhanced and challenging criticalities minimized, with a synergistic interaction of macroeconomic, legal and institutional actions. Design/methodology/approach –...

<italic>Value for money (VfM) is a key parameter for the public sector in the choice between a public-private partnership (PPP) and traditional procurement, especially for healthcare infrastructure. This paper investigates the differences in what VfM means to the public and private sectors.</italic>

Credit crunch is an obstacle to project financing bankability, which represents a starting point in order to restart anticyclical infrastructural investments. New instruments, such as project bonds defined by recent Italian legislation, need to be complemented by milder taxation and a more...

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to detect how Value for Money (VfM) in Italian Project Finance (PF) investments can be enhanced and challenging criticalities minimized, with a synergistic interaction of macroeconomic, legal and institutional actions. Design/methodology/approach -Analysis...