With the rapid increase of mobile devices and online media, more people prefer posting/viewing videos online. Generally, these are presented on video streaming sites with image thumbnails text titles. While facing huge amounts videos, a viewer clicks through certain high probability because its eye-catching thumbnail. However, current created manually, which is time-consuming quality-unguarante...

For FDI to help achieve the international development goal of halving absolute poverty, two conditions have to be met. First, poor developing countries need to be attractive to foreign investors. Second, the host-country environment in which foreign investors operate must be conducive to favourable FDI effects with regard to overall investment, economic spillovers and income growth. This paper ...

How do potentially optimistic entrepreneurs attract prospective investors? We investigate an entrepreneur’s decision to pursue either disclosure—where investors inspect the invention—or a contingent payment scheme (CPS) offer (e.g., salary deferral, royalty-based license)—where an invention’s value is inferred from the entrepreneur’s willingness to make her pay contingent on the invention’s suc...

Housing affordability in Australia is declining, especially for low-income tenants in the private sector. A number of attempts have been made to attract more private investment into boosting the supply of affordable housing in Australia. However, these attempts have been one-off and small-scale, enjoying very limited success. Large professional and institutional investors continue to avoid the ...

In most developing countries a shortage of long-term, local-currency fi nancing for small-scale infrastructure projects impedes local economic development. Inadequate fi scal transfers, little own source revenue and low creditworthiness make it diffi cult for local governments to fully fund projects on their own. Th is paper proposes the use of project fi nance as a means to attract fi nancing ...

The diffusion of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) metrics is increasingly affecting corporates behaviour their ability to attract investors. Corporate ESG practices are nowadays considered as a key element in evaluating creditworthiness the cost capital, direct funds best-performing companies that limit harmful impact on planet societies. Due this increased interest by companies, inve...

We model a financial market in which companies engage in strategic financial reporting knowing that investors only pay attention to a randomly drawn sample from firms’ reports and extrapolate from this sample. We investigate the extent to which stock prices differ from the fundamental values, assuming that companies must report all their activities but are otherwise free to disaggregate their r...

The development of mobile applications has mushroomed in local and foreign industries. This provides a tremendous opportunity for developers. For technopreneur developer, the capital to run the business is one of the biggest problems despite the fact that they may have great competence in the field. The fact that the business has big potential market in Indonesia has invited investors from loca...