1. The Story of Small Business Lending -- Part I The Problem -- 2. Small Businesses Are Important to the Economy -- 3. Small Businesses and Their Banks: The Impact of the Great Recession -- 4. Structural Obstacles Slow Small Business Lending -- 5. What Small Businesses Want -- Part II The New...

1. Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences: the Role of Financial Studies -- 2. Risk and Pricing on the Italian Minibond Market -- 3. Exploring Factors Influencing the Success of Equity Crowdfunding Campaigns: Findings from Italy -- 4. From seeker side to investor side: gender dynamics in UK equity...

Background of Supply Chain Finance -- Model of Credit Empowerment -- Developement Stages of Credit Empowerment -- Technical and Legal foundation of Digital Debt Instruments -- Credit Empowerment Practice Based on Digital Debt Instruments -- Introduction of Supply Chain Finance Solutions -- Risk...

Chapter 1: Introduction to "Entrepreneurship in Post-Communist Countries: New Drivers towards a Market Economy" -- Part 1: Entrepreneurship in Post-Transition Context -- Chapter 2: The influence of the motives of entrepreneurial activity on economic growth of developing countries in Southeast...

This book presents a business model on how to structure the relationship between financial services and procurement. The need for new models is particularly important to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) where there is an evident difficulty in accessing credit. Due to this context,...

Part I: Microfinance -- 1. Can Microfinance Achieve Both Social and Financial Goals? -- 2. Boundaries of Microfinance -- Part II: Financing of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises -- 3. Solving the Financing Difficulty of SMEs by Community Construction -- 4. Big Bank, Small Finance -- Part III:...

Mergers & acquisitions are an essential instrument of strategic corporate management for companies of all sizes. The success of an M&A project highly depends on an optimal transaction preparation, fast execution and the experience of all parties involved. Due to numerous endogenous and exogenous...

1. Financial Regulations, Supervision Structure and Banking Performance in CESEE -- 2. The income velocity of money - determinants (case of the Czech Republic) -- 3. The Impact of Central Bank Policy Rate on Financial Development: The case of Europe -- 4. Causes of limitations of GDP per capita...

Part I – General aspects of ESG -- 1. Introduction: the multiples roles of corporate governance under ESG (Paulo Câmara) -- 2. Sustainability as a game changer in corporate governance (Guido Ferrarini) -- 3. ESG and the shift on corporate purpose (Beate Sjåfjell) -- 4. Sustainability and...