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A Comparative Study of Venture Capital Performance in the US and Europe

Xu, Xiaoqing Eleanor - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 9 (2004) 3, pp. 61-76

For the past fifty years in the United States, venture capital (VC) has provided initial funding to innovative entrepreneurial enterprises, while the European venture capital industry has only really emerged over the past decade. Using quarterly data from 1993 to 2003, this paper examines and...

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Advantages And Disadvantages Of E-Learning In Comparison To Traditional Forms Of Learning

Radović-Marković, Mirjana - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 10 (2010) 2, pp. 289-298

Internet education is soon to become the dominant form of education in the world. A lot of effort is being devoted into furthering the work methods and communication among students and professors, aimed at bettering the quality of this kind of studying. Moreover, further development of virtual...

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The International Banking Crisis: Lessons and EU Reforms

Welfens, Paul J.J. - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2009

comprehensiveness of banks- balance sheets must be radically improved and all off-balance sheet activities must be included in future … portfolio positions of banks, funds and insurance companies would continue. Financing of rating should be indirect, namely every … encourage bankers to take a more long term time horizon in decision-making and to reduce excessive risk-taking. Banks and funds …

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The contradictions of state regulation of the banking sector: the challenge of moral hazard during the sub-prime mortgage crisis

Doyran, Mine Aysen - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 1, pp. 72-92

The sub-prime crisis began in mid-2007 as a bursting of the US housing market bubble and became a truly global meltdown in 2008. Renewed instability in financial markets precipitated awareness of how policy makers must react to systemic failures. This paper discusses the primary policy issues...

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Slicing the toxic pizza, an analysis of FDIC's Legacy Loans Program for receivership assets

Wilson, Linus - In: International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance 3 (2010) 3, pp. 300-309

The Legacy Loans Program (LLP) is an elaborate way of slicing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's (FDIC's) receivership assets. At best, the financial structure is irrelevant to the FDIC's expected long-run recovery rates. Yet, it may boost short-term prices by creating bond insurance...

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Output sustainability to exogenous and endogenous shocks: evidence from emerging economies

Belitski, Maksim; Peliova, Jana - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 3 (2011) 3, pp. 255-280

This paper studies the impact of exogenous and endogenous shocks (exogenous shock is used interchangeably with external shock; endogenous shock is used interchangeably with domestic shock) on output fluctuations in post-communist countries during the 2000s. The first part presents the analytical...

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Credit crunch and loan acquisition concerns in a recessional economy: an empirical study

Smith, Alan D. - In: International Journal of Electronic Finance 4 (2010) 4, pp. 297-322

The first part of the paper explains the following notions: what a credit crunch is, causes of the credit crunch, current social issues related to the credit crunch, and effects that the credit crunch has had on the US economy. The second part entails the analysis of hypotheses and...

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The changing nature of consolidation in the US banking industry - 1980 to the present

Heiney, Joseph N. - In: Global Business and Economics Review 15 (2013) 1, pp. 28-35

,000 presently. Any change in the number of banks must be due to the formation of new banks, mergers among existing banks, and the … failure of existing banks. Over the years from the mid-1980s to the present the causes underlying the continuing consolidation …

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The failure of the new macroeconomic consensus: from non-ergodicity to the efficient markets hypothesis and back again

Allington, Nigel F.B.; McCombie, John S.L.; Pike, Maureen - In: International Journal of Public Policy 7 (2011) 1/2/3, pp. 4-21

The subprime crisis raised some fundamental questions about the usefulness of mainstream economics. This paper considers the shortcomings of the new neoclassical synthesis and the new macroeconomic consensus in analysing the causes and consequences of the crisis. It demonstrates that the major...

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A critical assessment of the financialisation process and its impact on the US labour force during the great recession

Charles, Aurelie; Fontana, Giuseppe - In: International Journal of Public Policy 7 (2011) 1/2/3, pp. 97-111

products. These features have produced remarkable changes in the nature and role of banks and financial markets in modern …

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