Fast growth can be costly, so trade-offs between growth and fitness are to be predicted when organisms adjust their growth to compensate for earlier environmental conditions. We developed four generic models of increasing complexity with different processes to predict the indeterminate growth of vertebrate ectotherms, which is sensitive to ambient temperature even when food is not limiting. We ...

Several impatient investors with private costs Ci face an indivisible irreversible investment opportunity whose value V is governed by geometric Brownian motion. The first investor i to seize the opportunity receives the entire payoff, V −Ci. We characterize the symmetric Bayesian Nash equilibrium for this game. A laboratory experiment confirms the model’s main qualitative predictions: competit...

This paper aims to explain foreign portfolio investment impact on the dynamics of regional (Central and East Europe) capitalization structure in terms of sectorial investment distribution. Complexity of the problem domain has predetermined the use of interdisciplinary research framework. The ultimate result of this data analysis is a universally applicable model aimed at the nontraditional esti...

The trading and investment decision processes in financial markets become ever more dependent on the use of valuation and risk models. In the case of risk management for instance, modelling practice has become quite homogeneous and the question arises as to the effect this has on the price formation process. Furthermore, sophisticated investors who have private information about the use and cha...

One of the most promising applications of rapid freeze prototyping (RFP) is making metal parts by investment casting with the built ice parts. The integration of RFP and investment casting allows fast creation of complex net-shape metal parts directly from their CAD models. The advantages of doing so include no part geometric complexity limitation, no experience of parting line design and assem...

This paper examines the bilateral, source and host factors driving portfolio equity investment across a set of countries using International Monetary Fund’s new dataset on international equity holdings at the end of 1997, 2001 and 2002. The paper finds that the bilateral equity investment is strongly correlated with the underlying patterns of trade in goods and services. The information asymmet...

We find that a firm’s investment is highly sensitive to the investments of other firms headquartered nearby, even those in very different industries. It also responds to fluctuations in the cash flows and stock prices (q) of local firms outside its sector. Similar local effects are observed for anticipated investment, as measured by debt and equity offerings. These patterns do not appear to ref...

This thesis investigates the role of venture capital in regional economic development and presents results from a national survey of venture capital firms concerning the existence of capital gaps in the venture capital markets. In order to explore these issues, the author lays out the theoretical underpinnings of venture capital-oriented indigenous growth strategies and assesses the relationshi...

When opposing evolutionary selection pressures act on a behavioural trait, the result is often stabilizing selection for an intermediate optimal phenotype, with deviations from the predicted optimum attributed to tracking a moving target, development of behavioural syndromes or shifts in riskiness over an individual's lifetime. We investigated nest-site choice by female golden-winged warblers, ...

Nowadays, fundraising is one of the most important issues for both Fintech investors and startups. The pattern of fundraising in terms of “number and type of rounds and stages needed” are important. The diverse features and factors that could stem from Fintech business models which can influence success are of the key issues in shaping these patterns. This study applied the top 100 KPMG Fintech...