The ‘Third annual EU conference on EAFRD financial instruments for agriculture and rural development in 2014-2020’ took place on 10 October 2017 in Paris.
The conference:
The FI Campus event ‘Financial instruments under the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) in the 2014-2020 programming period’ took place from 29 November to 1 December 2017 in Brussels.
Despite the sometimes intensive media coverage and exuberant storytelling around the industry, venture capital (VC) investors tend to operate in highly opaque markets. On this premise, this work contributes to the literature via a hand-collected dataset of about 3 600 EIF-backed VC investments made in the 1996-2015 period, with the aim to analyse their liquidity events and returns. The paper finds, inter alia, that VC returns show sensitivity to the economic cycle.
The sixth macro-regional conference on financial instruments under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) was organised by fi-compass on 12 July 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia.
The conference:
To ensure a comprehensive and efficient process for implementation of financial instruments, managing authorities and other stakeholders may refer to the action plan described in this fi-compass video, which structures the lifecycle of financial instruments along four phases: design, set-up, implementation and winding-up.
Vienna saw the first thematic
