National differences in the demand for voluntary external audits have been linked to multiple factors, such as differences in a country's rate of growth, access to external credit, and institutional quality. Audits, however, also have a psychological cost, whose intensity is genetically and...

The purpose of our work is to identify and understand the explanatory factors of a possible satisfaction of the demand for SME bank credit. To carry out this work, we used a multinomial logit model with as endogenous variable the different types of companies having accessed the credit "TPE, PE,...

This paper explores the landscape, contributions, and determinants of sovereign wealth funds' long-term investments in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study finds that of all regions, Africa receives the lowest share of investment from sovereign wealth funds, and the landscape is dominated by Asian...