Social investment funds and indigenous peoples/Jonathan Renshaw. p. cm. (Sustainable Development Department. Best practices series; IND-108) Includes bibliographical references.

PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY Basic pension fund in China began investing in the capital market recently. This master’s thesis describes pension investments’ impact on the development of China’s capital market. Based on existing literature, it is shown that if the pension investment has a positive effect on the capital market, capital market development will enhance overall economic development, and it...

In this paper, we argue that China's P2P lending is influenced by the behavioural factors of platforms. This because severe information asymmetry results in high uncertainty surrounding industry. Specifically, examine three aspects lending: sentiments, herding, and speculation. Using a sample 918 platforms from October 2015-September 2019, document positive news release media (sentiments) encou...

Hundreds of independent, local, quasi-charitable microcredit societies, or $loan funds,# were lending to as many as 20% of Irish households in the mid-nineteenth century. Monitored by a central regulatory authority, funds in the system were successful in mitigating informational, moral hazard and enforcement problems, and thus operated at a surplus in a market where intermediation by the banks ...

T he present paper investigates the impact of the financial crisis on the interaction between the lending rates, deposit rates and money market rates through the process of retail bank interest rate pass-through in the countries of the Euro area. Among our findings is the heterogeneity of bank rate adjustments across sectors, loans and deposits. That was mainly marked during the pre-...

We hypothesize that trust plays an important role in affecting the activeness and effectiveness of the global mutual fund industry. Empirically, trust is positively associated with the activeness of domestic funds, whereas for internationals mutual funds conducting cross-border investments activeness is bounded by the trust of lowtrust countries. In both cases, trust-related active share delive...

In the conditions of market infrastructure for the transformation of medical services, there is an objective need to build effective insurance protection of the population against risks associated with loss of health. Using a systematic approach, the problem of combining compulsory and voluntary health insurance is investigated, a theoretical conceptualization of the concept of “financial mecha...