An extensive literature has analyzed the implications of hidden shifts in the dividend growth rate. However, corresponding research on learning about growth persistence is completely lacking. Hidden persistence is a novel way to introduce long-run risk into standard business-cycle models of...

The mid-term and long-term growth potential of China’s insurance industry is a subject ofsignificant interest to governments, business and academia. In this paper, the ‘‘worldinsurance growth curve’’ is used in conjunction with estimates of China’s future GDPgrowth to estimate the...

The primary goal of the paper is to determine the impact of new investment tools on the development of global markets. In this regard, environmental finance is a new and powerful means of stimulating economic growth in emerging financial markets. Environmental finance offer more than just access...

With a risk-return perspective, this work presents an original framework enfolding several profit & loss diagrams for a variety of option strategies to be employed in the short-term, either for hedging or for speculative purposes. This work also discusses performance evaluation of several...

Our interest in writing this article is to create a bridge between the scholarly and academic research on technological innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on small business innovation and entrepreneurship, primarily in metro regional...

Our interest in writing this article is to create a bridge between the scholarly and academic research on technological innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on small business innovation and entrepreneurship, primarily in metro regional economies....

Our interest in writing this article is to create a bridge between the scholarly and academic research on technological innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship, primarily in metro regional economies.This paper...

This paper investigates the importance of firm size with respect to access to credit relative to firm performance, and other factors which may affect creditworthiness such as management education, location, or the industrial sector to which the firm belongs. The principal findings are that size...

Our interest in writing this article is to create a bridge between the scholarly and academic research on technological innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship, primarily in metro regional economies.Aggregate...

Our interest in writing this article is to create a bridge between the scholarly and academic research on technological innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship, primarily in metro regional economies.For the past 20...