This paper provides a conceptual framework to analyze investment projects with networks externalities. In the presence of such effects, consumers make their choice of consumption according to the number of people having already adopted the product or the service. The process of diffusion of such...

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the issues related to risk, volatility, value and risk management. It includes a selection of the best papers presented at the Fourth International Finance Conference 2007, qualified by Professor James Heckman, the 2000 Nobel Prize Laureate in...

Corporate venture capital (CVC) is a real driving force behind the development of technology-based innovation. It is an entrepreneurial strategy used by big corporations who go outside the company because they can no longer depend solely on creating innovations in-house. CVC enables them to...