The regulations founded on the rules describes by the Basle Committee takes place jointly with the discipline from the Board of Directors on decisions taken by the leader of the bank. In this work, we demonstrate that this double discipline acts trough a complementary manner, while the...

The purpose of this paper was to decipher the contradictions and the ambiguities of crowdfunding as a term and as a practice to reveal the deeper significance of its underlying Zeitgeist.Three steps were followed. In the first one, the authors underline the ambiguities of crowd as a concept in...

We thought that, in order to introduce “The International Research Handbook of Crowdfunding”, an overview or, more precisely, a cartography of the academic literature on crowdfunding would help position this highly developing funding mode. Studied data come from the Business source complete...

The volume of credit granted in the form of syndicated loans saw a marked downturn in 2008. This article seeks to understand how certain firms were nonetheless able to benefit from larger facilities or a lower interest rate than others. Using a sample of syndicated loans issued in 2008 in North...

This paper combines the theoretical teachings of revealed preferences, signal theory and weak tie theory to better understand the dynamics at work at the beginning of a campaign and to explain its success. By identifying the revealed preferences of early backers through their common past...

The transparency of credit institutions is currently an issue of crucial importance not only with regard to the adaptation of regulatory tools (Basle II, IAS-IFRS international norms etc.) but also to the banking, financial and economic consequences. The current crisis places the importance of...

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