They do not look alike: what kind of private investors do equity crowdfunded firms attract?

Do Private Equity Owned Firms Have Better Management Practices?

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e.g. productivity, profitability and stock market value). Private equity firms are significantly better managed than government, family and privately owned ...

Enter the neuro-economists: why do investors do what they do?

Understanding the Sustainability of Private Development Initiatives: What Kind of Difference Do They Make?

In the Netherlands, there is a large group of small-scale, voluntary development organisations, referred to as Private Development Initiatives (PDIs). By classifying PDI interventions based on their potential sustainability, we aim to enhance our understanding of PDIs as alternative development actors and to get insight into the diversity within this group. We rely on detailed data of 49 Dutch ...

Do we all look alike to computers ?

intensity target in the middle frame. Again, this implies a sub-optimal strategy for detecting the target, as these early bar intensities are independent of the presence or absence of the target. Neri and Heeger interpret this to mean that these early high-contrast signals are engaging a separate 'attentional' mechanism that is used to detect the target. They ran a clever second experiment in w...

Do we all look alike to computers?

People are better able to recognize faces of their own race than those of other races. One explanation is that this 'other-race effect' is caused by lifelong experience in which faces from some races are more common than other races. A recent article by Furl et al. tests experience-based accounts of the other-race effect by giving computer algorithms of face recognition training on preponderant...