The aim of the paper is to provide insights into lending against crop receipts mechanism. Crop emerged as promising financial instruments creating an additional type collateral for agricultural producers that pledge their future production in order finance ongoing activities. At same time, they offer alternative investment opportunity banks through creation a new asset class. European Bank Reco...

This essay identifies two approaches to theorizing the relationship between financialization and contemporary art. The first departs from an analysis of how market logics in non-financial spheres are being transformed to facilitate financial circulation; the other considers valuation practices in financial markets (and those related to derivative instruments in particular) from a socio-cultural...

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, a strand literature has documented threshold beyond which development tends to affect growth adversely. However, The evidence rests heavily on internal instrument identification strategies, whose reliability received surprisingly little attention so far in finance-growth literature. Therefore, present paper conducts reappraisal non-linear conclusion tw...