Economics & Finance
EU-funded SMEs outperform their competitors
A new research paper from Fabio Bertoni, professor of Finance at emlyon business school, joint with Anita Quas (University of Milan) and Massimo Colombo (Politecnico di Milano), shows that SMEs that receive funding from the EU through European Investment Fund (EIF) guaranteed loans, drastically outperform those that don’t.
Does being beautiful make you a more electable director?
Would George Clooney make a successful company director? Or, Angelina Jolie the best president? Or, maybe Brad Pitt the next CEO of a Fortune 500 company? Well, it certainly would fit a notion that has always been believed – the more attractive a person is, the more likely it is that their looks positively affect their professional career, and the more likely they are to be successful.
Too busy to stay at work?
Who would be willing to pay for early retirement?
Valuing companies: when comparisons can be misleading
How much is Google worth? Or Apple? Or your SME? One of the most crucial issues for any company is surely its financial valuation.
How financialisation has taken hold of companies and their subcontractors
The 2008 financial crisis revealed the hegemony of financial logic in company management. This dominance is seen in the emphasis placed on shareholder value by top management and the proliferation of financial performance indicators (operating margin, return on investment, return on equity, etc.).
Entrepreneurs and the financial literacy timebomb
The world faces a problem – not enough of us are financially literate. This is an issue because the world is more financially complex than ever before and more and more of us are setting up businesses or operating as sole traders in the ‘gig economy’.
Zika, Ebola: what do we learn through the economic analysis of a company’s research and development choices?
Part of the economic thinking on research and development (R&D) aims to identify the factors on which companies base their choices for the organization of innovation activities, and to understand their impacts on various dimensions. […]
Dirty Hands and Dirty Money: a new approach to fighting pollution in finance
When explaining that her research focuses on ethics in banking and finance, Mar Perezts, Associate Professor of Management, Law and Human Resources at EMLYON is often met with such cynical remarks as “Ethics in banking? Ha! Haven’t you read the newspapers lately?”