Essays about: "intermediation"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 34 essays containing the word intermediation.

1. 16. Determinants of default in the bitcoin lending market. The case of Bitbond platform

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Gabriele Noreikaite; Ausra Almante Ambrazaite; [2017]
   Keywords : bitcoin; peer-to-peer lending; bitcoin lending; default; credit grade; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This paper studies the bitcoin lending market and the factors explaining loans defaults. No financial intermediation implies that investors are faced directly with the credit risk. READ MORE

3. 17. Born, Trained or Excluded Microentrepreneur

   University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

   Author : Johanna Eriksson; Madeleine Wollin; [2017]
   Keywords : Microentrepreneurship; Microfinance; Commercialization; Training; Sri Lanka; Mikroentreprenörskap; Mikrofinans; Kommersialisering; Träning; Sri Lanka;

   Abstract : Purpose– The assumption that microcredit alone can contribute to worldwide povertyalleviation is debated, the opponents voicing the need of non-credit services in addition togive the poor access to capital. Social intermediation services are argued to be essential inmaking a difference in a time where the impact of microfinance itself has been reappraised inseveral studies. READ MORE

4. 18. The Perpetuation of Jihad: Boko Haram, Charismatic Constructions of Jihadist Ideology and the Rise of Abubakar Shekau

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Christer Karlsson; [2016]
   Keywords : Jihadism; Boko Haram; Charismatic Leadership; Ideology; Terrorism; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The Nigerian jihadist-terrorist movement Boko Haram reached international notoriety especially after the bombing of an UN-headquarters in Abuja in 2011 and after the kidnappings of 276 schoolgirls in 2014. But these events are minor parts of rapid evolutionary ideological developments and expansion. READ MORE

5. 19. The lawyer as a Real Estate Agent

   University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggande

   Author : Olivia Hermansson; Frida Strandberg; [2016]
   Keywords : Estate Agents Act; real estate agency; professional; intermediation; ethics in real estate; advocacy; ethics in advocacy; Fastighetsmäklarlagen; fastighetsförmedling; yrkesmässig förmedling; god fastighetsmäklarsed; advokatverksamhet; god advokatsed;

   Abstract : This thesis addresses the exception regarding lawyers in the Swedish fastighetsmäklarlagens §5 and aims to understand the background and meaning of the exception. Further the thesis addresses whether the main purpose of the estate agents act, the protection of consumers, is satisfying when a lawyer is practicing real estate agency. READ MORE

6. 20. Bank Capital in DSGE Models

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Valentin Schubert; Robin Tietz; [2016]
   Keywords : banks; bank capital; financial intermediation; leverage;

   Abstract : This paper analyzes the implications of three different modeling approaches to bank capital for business cycle dynamics in a DSGE model with various real and financial frictions. Two approaches feature exogenous capital requirements but differ in their mathematical form. READ MORE