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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Risk capital"”.
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Public private equity : an evaluation of public early stage risk capital initiatives in Norway
Access to finance limits the ability to grow for many early stage ventures. To mitigate this limitation, the Norwegian State has initiated seed funds partly financed by public funds. The funds carried out many investments during the late 1990s and 2000s. This thesis describes and evaluates the …
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The impact of the FRTB on Market Risk Capital for the South African InterBank Interest Rate Market
… require banks to hold a minimum amount of capital for market risk resulting from their trading operations and prescribe two approaches to calculating this minimum capital requirement: (i) a Standardised Approach (SA); and (ii) an Internal Models Approach (IMA). The global financial crisis …
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The political economy of innovative development financing : a case study of donor funded risk capital financing in South Africa
… theory to establish to what extent an innovative Risk Capital Facility funded by the European Union in South Africa provided more value than traditional aid delivery modalities. This involved testing both the process of channelling aid, as well as the results achieved. Although not a panacea to …
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Economic Capital Analysis with Portfolios of Dependent and Heavy-Tailed Risks
In the nowadays reality of prudent risk management, the problem of determining aggregate risk capital in financial entities has been intensively studied for quite long. As a result, canonical methods have been developed and even embedded in regulatory accords. While applauded by some and questioned …
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Risk management for property casualty insurance companies
… in management of insurance company risk capital. The laxity in managing the cost of capital is a result of dysfunctional property/casualty risk classification and capital accumulation practices in the insurance industry. We reclassify risk based on both peril and financial functional …
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A cost benefit analysis of operational risk quantification methods for regulatory capital
Operational risk has attracted a sizeable amount of attention in recent years as a result of massive operational losses that headlined financial markets across the world. The operational risk losses have been on the back of litigation cases and regulatory fines, some of which originated from the …
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Estimating value at risk and expected shortfall: a kalman filter approach
Calculating Value-at-Risk (VaR) to estimate the maximum loss a portfolio may incur at a given confidence level and over a specified time has undergone several adaptations, iterations, and additions since its inception in 1994. In 2013, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) replaced VaR …
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Mathematical models for optimal management of bank capital, reserves and liquidity
… models for optimal management of bank capital, reserves and liquidity. This aim emanates from the global financial crisis of 2007 − 2009. In this regard and as a first task, our objective is to determine an optimal investment strategy for a commercial bank subject to capital …
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Acquisition of medical device start-ups
… device space, it has been noted that Venture Capital firms (VC's) use high risk capital to invest in early stage companies, and look for "exits" through either an Initial Public Offering (IPO) or through the sale of the start-up to an established firm. Corporations are also involved in varying …
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Local content requirements in the South African extractives sector: Do South Africa's local content requirements for the mineral and mining sector promote foreign direct investment?
… mineral and mining industry, however, is high risk, capital intensive and often has long lead times from exploration to production. Due to these factors, exploiting South Africa's mineral resources with recourse to purely domestic financing, expertise and/or equipment is challenging, if not …
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Corporate Governance, Performance and Risk-Taking in the U.S. Banking Industry
… <p>We next examine the relationship between risk-taking of the bank holding company and several board characteristics. We use four accounting based proxies for bank risk-taking including credit risk, liquidity risk, capital ratio and operational risk. We also use three market based proxies …
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Dynamics of innovation policies and ecosystems in Japan
… of students to become entrepreneurial. A Risk capital depletion loop is a balancing loop which decelerates growth of startups when too many startups look for investment. Multiple loops and stakeholders interact closely in the systems, and the interrelated structures cause delay and side …
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The investment risk of institutional-grade commercial real estate in Australia
Knowledge of the investment risk of investment-grade commercial real estate (‘ICRE’) is important because it determines the approaches which should be taken to portfolio management. However, relatively little is known about this risk. This research expands the body of knowledge of ICRE investment …
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How Can Sultan Qaboos University Respond to the Contemporary Challenges of the Omani Labour Market Needs and Community Expectations?
… interview data revealed that conventional human capital themes failed to account for the range of views about the effects of the course on graduate employability. Until a decade ago, human capital principles that value years of learning served Oman well as it provided sufficient educational …
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Three Essays on Foreign CEOs
… national culture to analyse their impact on firm risk, capital structure decisions and corporate acquisitions. The first study examines the impact of foreign CEOs on the risk taking behaviour of their firms and management practices. The results show that, compared with domestic CEOs, firms managed …
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Indigenous Firm Performance in a Small Late Developing State : A Case-study of the Role and Contribution of Public Venture Capital in Ireland.
… the role and contribution of public venture capital - as a significant industrial policy initiative - to shareholder value creation in growth-oriented indigenous firms in Ireland. Three main themes are investigated. Firstly the rationale and context for micro-level industrial policy …
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Cultivating risk : weather insurance, technology and financialization in India
… automated technologies to manage the increasing risks of agricultural cultivation. Insurance has come to be seen as a systematic response to the increasing impacts of drought and flooding since the green revolution and an agrarian crisis that has witnessed over 300,000 farmers commit suicide …
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Corporate Governance, Risk Management, and Bank Performance in the GCC Banking Sector
… to contribute to Corporate Governance CG and Risk Management RM literature by providing empirical evidence of the relationship between the three construct: CG, RM and Bank Performance BP within the GCC banking sector. Furthermore, the Islamic data and conventional data have been separated to …
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CONDIZIONI PERSONALI DEL SOCIO E SITUAZIONI SOGGETTIVE SOCIALI NELLA S.P.A.
… scenario where the "typological" identity of capital companies has been profoundly transfigured, a particularly clear phenomenon in limited liability companies, as amply highlighted in the most recent doctrinal studies. In fact, more recently, there is a tendency to point out that the “type” …
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O uso de derivativos de câmbio e o custo de capital: evidências das empresas brasileiras
… objetivo estudar o comportamento do custo de capital de empresas brasileiras não-financeiras na presença da contratação de instrumentos financeiros derivativos como uma proteção (ou seguro) do fluxo de caixa das mesmas. Obteve-se uma amostra com 877 observações considerando os dados coletados …
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