Hometown Investment Trust Funds A Stable Way to Supply Risk Capital /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yoshino, Naoyuki (Editor), Kaji, Sahoko (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Entrepreneurship.; Business ethics.; Finance.; Macroeconomics.; Public finance.; Economics.; Public Economics.; Finance, general.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Business Ethics.

This book records the first success stories of a new form of financial intermediation, the hometown investment fund, that has become a national strategy in Japan, partly to meet the need to finance small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011....