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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"syndication"”.
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The syndication of low-income housing tax credits
The low-income housing tax credit is the primary governmental incentive for the development of affordable housing. This public policy initiative has become attractive to investors because in exchange for an equity investment, they receive tax credits, which serve to reduce their federal income tax …
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A syndication-based messaging protocol for the global RFID network
… describes the design and implementation of a syndication based messaging protocol for the global RFID network. The motivation behind the design is to develop a scalable model that can be applied to "Internet of Things" technologies, which are used to encompass the large data volume of physical …
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Analysis of South African venture capital practitioners' views on the motivations, benefits and constraints of international syndication
The international syndication of venture capital investments has become an increasingly widespread phenomenon, but there is a lack of research which applies the already limited prior international research in this field1 to South Africa or other African countries. This research aims to begin that …
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The development of the AngelList online syndication model in equity crowdfunding and its effects on venture capitalism and the seed funding industry
AngelList developed online syndication to enable lead investors to collect backing investments from other individuals and professional investors. Online syndication, as part of equity crowdfunding, was expected to answer some fundamental issues of seed funding and possibly contribute to the …
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Governmental Venture Capital Firms in China: performance and interaction with private peers
… private venture capital firms (PVCs) through syndication and the methods to improve GVCs’ performance. I first identify the strengths and weaknesses of GVCs in each stage of a VC life cycle and compare them with PVCs. I focus on VC firms’ exit performance in their portfolio companies and carry …
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The Special Partnership Income Tax Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an assessment of its effect on a real estate syndication : a case study
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies, 1987.
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Networking in the venture capital industry
… the social networks built and nurtured through syndication partnerships among firms and the educational networks shared by managers of these firms. Such relationships also have an impact on VC firms’ decisions to syndicate in their future investments, as well as the success of those investments. …
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The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit : HERA, ARRA and beyond
… 2008 led to the subsequent collapse of the LIHTC syndication markets as demand for LIHTCs practically evaporated. Proposed affordable housing developments that anticipated receiving private investment through the sale of LIHTCs stalled. In response to the overall national housing crises, Congress …
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Network, network position and the deal flow of venture capital firms
… that Venture Capital firms (VCs) hold in their syndication network and determines the effect that network positions have on generating deal flow quantity and quality. Network closure (Coleman 1988) emphasizes that cohesive network structures facilitate cooperative behavior of actors. In …
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INTERNAL CONTROL QUALITY AND INFORMATION ASYMMETRY IN THE SECONDARY LOAN MARKET
… covenants, credit rating and number of lenders (syndication) in the secondary loan market on the association between ICDs and IA. Results suggest that firms that disclose ICDs have significant positive association with IA and that ICDs reported under section 302 have significant positive …
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Behavioral Finance: Factors Influencing Angel Investor Decisions
… led the entrepreneur to the angel investor, and syndication status. The dissertation finds that angels’ decisions are influenced by rational and behavioral factors, such as cognitive biases and social influences. While there is strong evidence that experienced angel investors spend more time on …
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Private Debt Syndicates: Governance, Networks, and Syndicate Structure
… information flows and reputational effects. The syndication process itself is a two stage process. The first stage is the underwriting process wherein lead arrangers perform due diligence on the borrower and the parties agree to loan terms. The second stage is the syndication process wherein lead …
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Value added by venture capitalists : the case of EDC (Export Development Canada)
… run contrary to previous speculation that syndication of VCs increases the probability of internationalization among portfolio firms.
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AN ANALYSIS OF THE TAIWAN NAVY MINEHUNTER PROCUREMENT FRAUD CASE
… six minehunters; but, due to Ching-Fu’s loan syndication scandal and contract breach, the Taiwan Navy terminated the contract. This procurement failure hindered Taiwan’s indigenous defense shipbuilding goal and damaged the national interest. In this thesis, a three-part matrix was created to …
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A taxonomy of online syndicates
… investing and the most current form of online syndication. While VC financing has been covered thoroughly from financing and behavioral perspectives in research, very little is known about online syndicates which have appeared in recent years with the creation of AngelList. This paper's …
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Enhanced Tools to Improve Situational Awareness
… also were Microsoft Chat and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) as candidate solutions. Each system or tool was first screened to identity those possessing the desired characteristic s of a potential solution. Then the qualifying systems were screened using a matrix of weighted factors. The …
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An XML Messaging Service for Mobile Devices
… instant messaging, and RSS and Atom for content syndication. This XML usage is understandable, as the format itself is a well-accepted standard for structured data, and it has excellent support for many popular programming languages, so inventing an application-specific format no longer seems …
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RSS Management: An RSS Reader to Manage RSS Feeds That Efficiently and Effectively Pulls and Filters Feeds With Minimal Bandwidth Consumption
<p>In the early 2000s, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) was launched into cyber space and rapidly gained fame by existing as the underlying technology that fueled millions of web logs (blogs). Soon RSS feeds appeared for news, multimedia podcasting, and many other types of information on the …
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Sex and the City, Platinum Edition: How The Golden Girls Altered American Situation Comedy
… run from 1985 to 1992, and in its current syndication status on several cable television networks.Sex and the City, Platinum Edition: How The Golden Girls Altered American Situation Comedy explores several of the ways in which the program effected American culture in terms of television as …
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Three Essays on Corporate Finance and Labor
… change in the level of total debt. The syndication size of newly issued bank loans increases while creditor ownership concentration decreases once the vote share for unions passes the winning threshold. Further analyses confirm that the debt structure adjustments after union …
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