Hometown Lending

Hometown Organisations and Development Practices

Research Background) This working paper is part of a comparative research project looking at three immigrant groups (two North African Berber groups: the Moroccan Chleuhs and the Algerian Kabyles, and the Sikh Punjabis from India) residing in two receiving countries (France and the UK). This work seeks to explain the emergence of hometown associations committed to the development of their place...

3d Modeling of Boccaccio’s Hometown Throught a Multisensor Survey

This 3D modeling experience lies in the more general framework of large scale cartography aimed at conservation of an historical city center. The study has been applied to the ancient nucleus of “Certaldo Alto”, a medieval village in Tuscany famous as Boccaccio’s birthplace. The data acquisition project exploited the synergy of topography, photogrammetry and 3D scanning for generating a cartogr...

Lending Spillovers

The model presented addresses issues that have recently been discussed under the term ‘financial contagion’. I analyze a situation where the fractions of repaid loans (i.e., the returns on lending) in two domains (e.g., industries or countries) are driven by two independent factors, one specific to the domain and the other a general factor. The fact that these different factors are unobserved g...

A pillar of hope in a hard-hit hometown.

Determinants of Student Intention to Work in Hometown

This empirical research tests the effects of personal emotion and perceived environmental conditions on students' intention to return to their hometown to work after graduation in Vietnam. With a sample of 182 students from the National Economics University, the result confirms that students' intention of returning to work in hometown is affected by family support, hometown personal love and pe...