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Institutional Guarantee for China’s Technological Progress Strategy
2020Although the Comparative Advantage Theory of David Ricardo illustrates the wonderful win-win situation inevitably brought about by the trade division between the one with high productivity and the one with low productivity, it is by no means the reality of the international social economy under a complete free market structure.
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SMEs, public credit guarantees and mutual guarantee institutions
Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 2016Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on public guarantees granted to micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by the Italian national credit guarantee programme (Fondo Centrale di Garanzia – Central Guarantee Fund – (CGF)). The CGF provides a direct guarantee to banks granting loans or a counter-guarantee to mutual guarantee ...
Lorenzo, Gai +2 more
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The Microcredit Guarantee Funds and Institutions: A Comparative Analysis
2014Credit guarantee schemes are one option to facilitate microenterprises and SME’s in accessing the credit market. The credit guarantee schemes represent a vast and heterogeneous number of realities worldwide, usually classified into two main categories: guarantee companies (or institutions) and guarantee programmes.
LEONE, Paola +3 more
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The DEA Operational Efficiency Evaluation of Credit Guarantee Institutions
2009 International Conference on Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering, 2009In order to evaluate the operational efficiency of the credit guarantee institutions objectively, data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is used in this paper. By introducing particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm, DEA model can rationally compute the operational efficiency of credit guarantee institutions with multiple inputs and multiple outputs ...
Xiaoling Cui, Tianli Zhong
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Credit Guarantee Institutions and SME Finance
2012In many countries mutual guarantee schemes and institutions help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to improve their access to credit, by reducing existing information asymmetries and improving credit conditions for those who benefit from such guarantees.
LEONE, Paola, Gianfranco A. Vento
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Feasibility, Normativity, and Institutional Guarantees
2012This chapter considers John Rawls' conception of ideal theory, with particular emphasis on the implications of problems of feasibility for normative political philosophy and market democracy's institutional guarantees. It defends Rawls' general view of ideal theory, first by explaining why the objection to market democracy—that even if market ...
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Desert in liberal justice: beyond institutional guarantees
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2016AbstractI argue that a theory of distributive justice is sensitive to desert if and only if it (1) does not require an institutional scheme thatpreventsindividuals from treating one another as they deserve, and (2) requires a desertethos. A desertethosis a set of principles that, though not embodied in a society’s basic coercive structure, nevertheless
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Bank-Firm Relations and the Role of Mutual Guarantee Institutions at the Peak of the Crisis
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010We examine the role played by Mutual Guarantee Institutions (MGIs) in the lending policies undertaken by banks at the peak of the Great Crisis of 2007-2009. We address this issue by using a large database on Italian firms built from the credit files of UniCredit banking Group and focusing on small business.
Francesca Bartoli +3 more
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Does Institutional Autonomy Guarantee Academic Freedom
2023Throughout history, higher education institutions were affected by the society's management, economic and socio-cultural structure, and technological developments. In the 21st century, universities are converted to the important changes in scientific, social, and economic environments, unlike medieval universities and Humboldt universities, and ...
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Institutional Balance as a Guarantee for Democracy in EU Governance
2002Abstract The notion of institutional balance is firmly embedded in the constitutional language of the European Union. Its content and language, however, are far from clear. This chapter begins by fleshing out the contours of the notion of institutional balance as it emerges from the current constitutional acquis and providing it with ...
LENAERTS, Koen, VERHOEVEN, Amaryllis
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