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Venture Capital and Private Equity Diversification: A Var and DCC Garch Approach

Корпоративные финансы
The terms “venture capital” and “private equity” are used in a loosely interchangeable manner when capital is invested in innovative technology-driven ideas or nascent-stage/unlisted companies.
Manu Sharma
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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Corporate governance criteria as applied in private equity investments

South African Journal of Business Management, 2005
Ineffective governance has often formed a backdrop to corporate failure with the resultant negative impact on stakeholders. In the field of private equity, investors have consistently received financial returns that outperform those of listed equities ...
R. Millson, M. Ward
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Private equity-, stock- and mixed asset-portfolios: a bootstrap approach to determine performance characteristics, diversification benefits and optimal portfolio allocations : [Version: December 2003] [PDF]

, 2004
In this article, we investigate risk return characteristics and diversification benefits when private equity is used as a portfolio component. We use a unique dataset describing 642 US-American portfolio companies with 3620 private equity investments ...
Schmidt, Daniel
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Does ESG Matter for Unlisted Companies in the Agri‐Food Industry? Evidence From Japan's Unlisted Agri‐Food Companies

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While ESG (environmental, social, and governance) is emphasized among listed companies for their stakeholders and ESG disclosures, ESG engagement among unlisted companies has been rarely examined due to data limitations. This is particularly problematic for the agri‐food industry that has significant impacts on the environment and consists ...
Ying Wang, Satoru Shimokawa
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What Drives Private Equity Investments in Romania?

Studia Universitatis Vasile Goldis Arad, Seria Stiinte Economice, 2015
This paper aims at presenting the determinants of private equity investments in Romania over the period 2000 - 2013. Additionally, this paper presents the main highlights in terms of evolution, source of funding and activities in which the private equity
Precup Mihai
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“We’re Not Going to Overcome Institutional Bias by Doing Nothing”: Latinx/a/o Student Affairs Professionals as Advocates for Equity

Education Sciences, 2022
Higher education institutions continue to be contested environments where the goals of equity and inclusion are often at odds with the permanence of institutional racism.
Michelle M. Espino, Juanita Ariza
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The Role of Actual and Purported Origin in e‐Commerce Wine Pricing: Evidence From Italian and French Names on Labels

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The origin of a product, if associated with good quality, can contribute to building a positive collective reputation, leading to a potential price premium. However, it is conceivable that a producer markets a product by evoking symbols, images, words, and values typical of places other than where it was designed or produced, creating a ...
Annalisa Caloffi, Amir Maghssudipour, Gianluca Stefani   +2 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
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The determinants and role of venture capital and private equity development in sustainable development [PDF]

Strategic Management, 2015
The newest trend of venture capital and private equity development shows that there is a significant growth of VC and PE investment as percent of GDP in developed countries, and more recently also in emerging economies. As in Serbia, the percentage of VC
Milenković Nada, Andrašić Jelena, Zulfiu Vedat   +2 more
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