Financial flows within business groups. KU Leuven
As business groups have several defining characteristics ...
The project develops a new nonparametric methodology to adequately measure financing constraints. Our measure can be seen as the potential profits that are lost due to the lack of finance. After validation, we use our measure to provide new insights why existing measures are inadequate, and, to quantify the implications of financing constraints for firms’ cash holdings and firms’ investments.
Summary
My main research idea focuses on the investment criteria and behavior of Family Offices (“FO”) when acquiring a business versus other financial buyers, such as Private Equity investors (“PE”). First, we will define clearly what is an FO and a PE using criteria such as shareholding, investment horizon, risk appetite, size, leverage. In my day to day M&A practice we notice different acquisition criteria at acquisition ...
The vanilla sector faces several challenges that negatively affect its stable supply. Domestication bottlenecks, vegetative propagation, and manual pollination instigated a strong genetic erosion in the crop species Vanilla planifolia. Moreover, practices involving intense monocultures and supply chains with asymmetrical revenue partition further exacerbate the vulnerability of this sector. The Neotropics host several Vanilla crop wild ...
In Ethiopia, horses hold an important place with a share of 16% of total livestock cash value and are essential for transportation, in agricultural-,economic- and in social life. Efficient livestock production is prevented by diseases of which T.equiperdum is the most threatening one of all. T.eq., a venereal transmitted disease, is endemic in Ethiopia and is considered the most important health problem threatening equines in most parts of ...
Medical diagnostics goes micro and smart (Micro and smart automation technologies for the development of point-of-care diagnostic and testing devices)
The project focuses on Flemish companies that wish to develop diagnostic point-of-care test equipment using micro production techniques and smart automation technology. It concerns companies from the biomedical sector, the injection molding sector and the mechatronics sector.
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