As entrepreneurial funding supports the growth of entrepreneurial firms, it can be viewed as the fuel that enhances the creation, development, and growth of new technologies, industries, and markets. However, investing in entrepreneurial firms is highly risky. For example, Ventu…
O seguinte trabalho consiste em uma avaliação do valor das ações da Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. para o ano 2020, os pressupostos adotados para a previsão dos próximos cinco anos (2020F-2024F) foram baseados no desempenho histórico dos últimos quatro anos (2016-2019). Este trab…
Malnutrition is a decisive factor that could detain individual and societal advancements. It may not only reduce individual well-being, but at macro level, could also be a burden for the national health expenditure and the labour productivity. Aside from the economic context, th…
This dissertation aims to study the gap between the theory and practice of the framework implemented by the United Nations Security Council 1325 (UNSCR 1325), which concerns the importance of women’s role in peacebuilding. Within the case study of South Sudan, this thesis analyz…
Hisse senedi yatırımcılar açısından, beklenen getiriyle birlikte en hassas noktalardan birisi de oluşturulan portföyün yatırımcıya verebileceği en büyük maddi zararın öngörülebilmesidir. Çalışmada riske maruz değer hesaplama yöntemlerinden, Varyans- Kovaryans, Tarihsel Simülasyo…
Recuando até 2011, é possível recordar a altura em que Portugal recorreu à sua 3ª ajuda financeira internacional da história, acordando um financiamento de 78 mil milhões de euros com a troika, em troca do cumprimento de diversos objetivos, tais como o alcance de metas orçamenta…
O Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto (ISCAP) passou por várias mudanças, influenciadas por diversos contextos sociais, políticos e económicos, que se refletiram na sua estrutura orgânico-funcional, desde a sua origem, em 1886, até ao Instituto que hoje …
Şehrin dinamik yapısı içerisinde şehir alanları dönüşüm geçirmektedir. Metropolleşen şehirlerin birçok merkezinin olması, tarihi, finans, ticaret, kültür, eğitim şehri olması şeklinde işlevlerinin yanı sıra yoğun nüfus ve yapılaşma sebepleri nedeniyle tarihi şehir dokusunun koru…
This dissertation contains three essays. In the first essay, I document that disclosure of financially immaterial environmental and social (E&S) information has material effects on firms’ investment and financing decisions using the staggered introduction of 87 country-level…
La economía chilena posee un alto grado de indexación a inflación a través de la unidad reajustable UF, dicha característica se transmite al mercado financiero a través de, por ejemplo, préstamos bancarios en moneda reajustable. Esta situación da lugar a que distintas institucio…
The application of reinforcement learning (RL) to algorithmic trading is, in many ways, a perfect match. Trading is fundamentally a problem of making decisions under uncertainty, and reinforcement learning is a family of methods for solving such problems. Indeed, many researcher…
This dissertation studies the governance structure and its economic impacts in the Chinese context. Specifically, I use a public choice framework to analyze how institutions influence economic and political activities of both public officials and private sectors. Chapter 1employ…
This dissertation is concerned with international financial crisis response and the role that formal and informal international institutions play in this process. It is about understanding the potential of and limits to international crisis governance. It tries to answer three i…
This qualitative meta-synthesis studied the inequities of HBCUs as it pertains to the NCAA and the black student-athlete. The study adopted the CRT and Social Constructivism paradigm and synthesized and interpreted the findings of eighteen purposefully sampled empirical qualitat…
This study examines South African house prices with a view to determining whether the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) had an effect on those prices. The first part of this study discusses alternative investments and real estate as an investment and the risks that come with it. The…
Over the last two centuries, stock exchanges have emerged as a central component of the capitalist system. While stock exchanges are now widely accepted as legitimate economic actors, and share trading favoured as a legitimate investment vehicle. this has not alvays been the cas…
Nowadays, Value-at-Risk (VaR) models play a crucial role in Financial Markets, being one of the most widely risk management tools used by financial analysts, to estimate market risk. Informally, VaR is a statistic that measures the maximum possible change in value (loss) of a po…
A necessidade de avaliar uma empresa é, de um modo geral, um imperativo, visto que surge associada a mudanças significativas e tomada de decisões que poderão causar um grande impacto no sucesso da mesma. Assim, a qualidade da avaliação realizada é decisiva, devendo assentar em m…
Contrariamente à maioria dos estudos sobre o risco cambial, que até ao momento se têm focado somente em empresas internacionalizadas, o presente trabalho de investigação estuda e analisa o grau de exposição cambial enfrentado por empresas “domésticas”, ou seja, de empresas cujo …