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Securitization: An Alternative Funding Mechanism for the Microfinance Institutions

Journal of International Business, Economics and Entrepreneurship, 2018
Despite microfinance has been widely appreciated as an informal financial mechanism to provide financial services to the poor people in developing countries, this sector is still lacking behind in fulfilling the demand gap due to the dearth of adequate ...
Shahadat Hossain, Rubaiyet Hasan Khan
doaj  

Intangible Value Creation Through Teamwork

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a sample of US firms from 1993 to 2023, comprising 38,502 firm‐year observations, we find that collaboration culture positively correlates with intangible value creation. We identify corporate innovation and human capital as the mechanisms via which collaboration correlates with intangible value creation.
Sagarika Mishra, Dinh Hoang Bach Phan, Vuong Thao Tran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Entrepreneurship and Financial Deregulation

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We quantitatively analyze the impact of US banking deregulation in the 1980s on the aggregate economy. Using recent econometric techniques, we first reexamine existing empirical evidence on the real effects of banking deregulation. We then construct a quantitative model that integrates imperfectly competitive banks into a general equilibrium ...
Toshihiko Mukoyama, Gang Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Housing Wealth and Consumption: The Role of Heterogeneous Credit Constraints

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We quantify the role of heterogeneity in households' financial constraints in explaining the link between the decline in aggregate consumption and the decline in house values between 2006 and 2009 using individual‐level data. Constraints that are triggered by a decline in house values, and a small fraction of consumers facing particularly ...
S. Borağan Aruoba, Ronel Elul, Şebnem Kalemli‐Özcan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scrutinising Frontex: The European Parliament and Accountability through Discharge

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how the European Parliament (EP) has leveraged the budgetary discharge procedure to enhance the political accountability of the EU's Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex. Whilst the procedure is formally limited to budget implementation, the EP has used it as an accountability tool that goes far beyond financial ...
Magnus G. Schoeller, Peter Slominski
wiley   +1 more source

How Has France Established Itself as a Champion of the European Fight Against Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI)?

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The article contributes to the emerging scholarly literature on how European democracies respond to foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), whilst focusing on a single case study of France. It asks how France responded to Russian FIMI and why this response has become more forceful and comprehensive over time.
Agnieszka K. Cianciara
wiley   +1 more source

Synchronising Disease X: How the EU Prepares for the Next Public Health Emergency

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract After the COVID‐19 pandemic, the European Union has taken steps towards closer cooperation in health emergency preparedness and response. For this reason, it has established the European Health Union (EHU), which joins an ongoing trend of health securitisation.
Paula Dornbusch
wiley   +1 more source

China and Limits to the European Union's Geoeconomic Turn

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The European Union's (EU) pivot from a commitment to efficiency to concern about security is commonly referred to as its ‘geoeconomic turn’. This paper analyses the EU's capacities to enhance its economic security and to engage in economic statecraft by focusing on China, which, at least until recently, posed the greatest geoeconomic challenge
Alasdair R. Young, Scott A. W. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

‘Inside’ the AI Act Negotiations: Three Transversal Narratives in the Struggle for Social Positioning and Identity‐Making

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article adopts a political ethnographic approach to follow narrative practices enacted by diplomats and bureaucrats during the trilogue negotiations of the European Union's (EU) Artificial Intelligence Act where inter‐institutional dynamics were at stake.
Matilde Bro
wiley   +1 more source

Post‐Humanitarian Militarism and the End of Development: Global Inequality, Security, and the Ethics of Post‐Imperial Solidarity

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces the transformation of global development from a discourse of aspirational equality to a regime of posthumanitarian militarism. It shows how aid, once framed as solidarity and progress, increasingly operates as an instrument of coercion, surveillance, and containment.
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source