Preface |
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About the Editors |
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Acknowledgments |
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Part 1 Financial Engineering and Innovation |
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Chapter 1 Evaluation of Innovation in EU Member States: A Multi-Dimensional Approach |
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4 Conclusions and Suggestions for Future Research |
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Chapter 2 Reward-Based Crowdfunding: A Key Component in Development and Funding Strategies |
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2 A Case Study of Reward-Based Crowdfunding |
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Chapter 3 CDS Approximation Accuracy Improvement with Cart and Random Forest Algorithms Based on a Time Span Including the COVID-19 Pandemic Period |
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Part 2 Issues in Financial Engineering |
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Chapter 4 Green Bond Market vs. Carbon Market in Europe: Two Different Trajectories but Some Complementarities |
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2 The Carbon Market in Europe |
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3 The Green Bond Market in Europe |
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4 Interaction Between European Carbon and Green Bond Markets |
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Chapter 5 Innovative Public Sustainability-Oriented Financial Mechanisms: The Case of Social Impact Bonds |
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2 The Social Impact Bond Model |
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3 Diversity of Approaches, Diversity of Financial Arrangements |
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4 Case Study: SIB Implementation in France |
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Chapter 6 A Multi-Criteria Comparison of Financial Performance between Sustainable and Non-Sustainable Companies |
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2 Multi-criteria Methodology: The UTADIS Method |
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5 Concluding Remarks and Future Research |
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Part 3 Reflections About Financial Engineering |
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Chapter 7 Transformations in Shareholder Activism: Past, Present, and Future |
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2 Understanding Shareholder Activism |
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3 A Brief History of Financial and Social Shareholder Activism |
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5 New Trends in Shareholder Activism |
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6 Discussion and Conclusion |
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Chapter 8 Ethics of the Sharing Economy: The Example of Reward- and Equity-Based Crowdfunding |
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2 Ethical Characteristics of the Sharing Economy |
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3 Literature Review on Sharing-Related Theories in the Context of the Sharing Economy |
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4 The Example of Crowdfunding |
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Chapter 9 Measuring, Accounting, and Reporting Impact |
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3 Impact in Accounting and Reporting Methodologies, Standards, and Frameworks |
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4 A Multi-dimensional Framework to Analyze Impact Accounts |
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5 The Future of Impact Accounting and Reporting |
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Index |
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