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15 Jul 2011
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Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

Keywords: by Pol Antras & C. Fritz Foley; Agriculture & Agribusiness

1985
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The Role of Contingent Claims Analysis in Corporate Finance

By: Scott P. Mason and Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Corporate Finance

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November 1986 (Revised January 1988)
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General Electric Exports: Financing Trade with China

By: David B. Yoffie

Keywords: Trade; Finance; China

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2013
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FIN Around the World: The Contribution of Financing Activity to Profitability

By: Russell Lundholm, George Serafeim and Gwen Yu

We study how the availability of domestic credit influences the contribution that financing activities make to a firm's return on equity (ROE). Using a sample of 51,866 firms from 69 countries, we find that financing activities contribute more to a firm's ROE in... View Details

Keywords: Domestic Credit; Return Of Equity; Corporate Performance; Financial Statement Analysis; Financial Statements; Valuation; Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing; Economic Growth

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10 May 2024
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1990
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Private Time: The Political Economy of Private Prison Finance

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Private Sector; Law Enforcement; Corporate Finance

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06 Sep 2012
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FIN Around the World: The Contribution of Financing Activity to Profitability

Keywords: by Russell Lundholm, George Serafeim & Gwen Yu

12 Jul 2017
Book

What Jane Austen and Mel Brooks Can Teach Us About Finance

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

March 2015 (Revised October 2015)
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Experimentation and Real Options in Entrepreneurial Finance

By: Ramana Nanda

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October 2014
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KGFS: A New Approach to Rural Finance

By: Rajiv Lal

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March 1990 (Revised March 1990)
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Chase Manhattan Bank (J): European Corporate Finance

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Banking Industry

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Finance and Accounting Courses | HBS Online

July 2012 (Revised February 2013)
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Société Internationale de Plantations et de Finance (SIPEF)

By: David Hawkins

Management of a company with extensive palm oil tree plantations questions the usefulness to management and investors of IAS41's requirement to value palm oil trees at their fair value. View Details

Keywords: Financial Accounting; International Financial Reporting Standards; International Accounting Standards; Biological Asset Accounting; IAS41; Historical Cost; Equity Valuation; Financial Ratios; Plant-Based Agribusiness; International Accounting; Valuation; Financial Reporting; Fair Value Accounting; Equity; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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Banking System - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Data Banking Sector Data Download Data Set in Excel Banking Sector Size The total assets of the banking sector, as a fraction of GDP, increased steadily between 1990 and 2008, before plateauing in recent years. Source: Flow of Funds The number of commercial banks has... View Details

09 Jul 2024
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Preparing for Your Finance Job Search with Wall Street Prep (CPD)

2017
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The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond

By: Josh Lerner

Patents and citations are powerful tools for understanding innovative activity inside the firm and are increasingly used in corporate finance research. But due to the complexities of patent data collection and the changing spatial and industry composition of innovative... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Analytics and Data Science; Corporate Finance; Research; Problems and Challenges

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