Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Finance

  1. From Capabilities to Peace: Can Mobile Money Reduce Conflicts in Developing Countries?
    Cross-national panel analysis of mobile money adoption and armed conflict in 103 developing countries, demonstrating significant conflict reduction through digital financial inclusion mechanisms.
  2. Moderate overconfidence is linked to better SME credit access
    Non-linear relationship between entrepreneurial confidence and SME financing access: mild overconfidence reduces credit rationing relative to underconfidence and extreme overconfidence.
  3. The Dynamics Of Private Equity Funds When Drawdowns, Performances and Distributions are Correlated
    A stochastic modeling framework for private equity fund dynamics using correlated diffusion processes for drawdowns, performance, and distributions, with adjustment for reporting biases.