Irrespective of the definition one adopts, shadow banking is huge. Some estimate that it"
rivals the traditional banking system in the intermediation of credit to households and …

Interest in access to finance and awareness of its importance have increased significantly
since the early 2000s. Growing evidence suggests that lack of access to credit prevents …

Back in the early 1990s, economists and policy makers had high expectations about the
prospects for domestic capital market development in emerging economies, particularly in …

This article deals with green bonds as a structured finance instrument that could help close
the clean energy investment gap by addressing private and institutional investors. At first, the …

Securitization is the process whereby financial assets are pooled together, with their cash
flows, and sold to a specially created third party that has borrowed money to finance the …

The article examines the theoretical and methodological basis of financing investment
projects by commercial banks. The system of financing of investment projects of commercial …

The purpose of this book is to present the principles of alternative investments in
management. The individual chapters provide a detailed analysis of various classes of …

In this article, the authors use KLD Research and Analytics (KLD) rankings from 1991 to
2009 to create three long-only portfolios: high-ranking “Top” stocks,“Shunned” stocks, and …

Over the last decades, OECD countries have steadily reduced their level of infrastructure
investment. Furthermore, the economic and financial shocks that occurred in the last decade …

The financial crisis that started in 2007 exposed a number of flaws in the financial system.
Many of these flaws were associated with financial instruments that were issued by the …