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Governance Impact on Private Investment: Evidence from the International Patterns of Infrastructure Bond Risk Pricing.
Bubnova, N.B. - World Bank Group - 2000
This paper uses international cross-sectional and time-series infrastructure bond risk premium and credit rating … history data from the past decade to examine the factors that influence investor risk perceptions and that inflate the cost of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639096
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Project Finance at the World Bank: An Overview of Policies and Instruments.
Benoit, P. - World Bank Group - 1996
Private and public sector sponsors of infrastructure, industrial and other commercial projects in developing countries are looking increasingly to the project finance structure to fund these operations. The World Bank has an array of financial instruments to support these projects. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780263
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World Bank Lending for Small Enterprises 1989-1993.
Webster, L.M.; Riopelle, R.; Chidzero, A.M. - World Bank Group - 1996
The main objective of this report is to evaluate World Bank lending for small enterprises between FY89 and FY93, including both small and medium enterprises and microenterprises. There has been a marked shift in the Bank's work in this area, and this review details the nature and content of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639100
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Assessment of Corporate Sector Value and Vulnerability: Links to Exchange Rtae and Financial Crises.
Gray, D.F. - World Bank Group - 1999
This paper presents an innovative yet practical framework to assess corporate sector vulnerability and the links to exchange rates and financial crises that bridges the gap between corporate finance and macroeconomic analysis. This framework missing describing how changes in aggregate value of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670002
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Macedonia
World Bank Group - 2014
The Country Opinion Survey in Macedonia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Macedonia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral and bilateral agencies, media, academia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564600
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Financial Risk and Opportunities to Build Resilience in Europe
World Bank Group - 2021
in European Union (EU) Member States (MS), analyze the financial instruments in place to manage this risk and identify … catastrophe risk models, one developed by JBA Risk Management (JBA) for fluvial and surface water flood, and one by the Global … Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM) for seismic risk. The report provides, (i) an indication of future losses for each country; (ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603726
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Fintech and the Digital Transformation of Financial ServicesFintech and the Future of Finance Flagship Technical Note : Implications for Market Structure and Public Policy
World Bank Group - 2022
This note examines the implications of digital innovation for market structure and attendant policies, including financial and competition regulation. There have been several surveys of regulatory responses. This note takes a step back, to look at what the economic theory of banking and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209129
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Financial Systems in Western Balkans : Present and Future
World Bank Group - 2016
Following a decade of conflicts, Western Balkan countries accomplished robust economic growth in the 2000s. This growth pattern was domestic demand driven and externally financed, hence was hampered significantly by the global financial crisis and subsequent euro area debt crisis. Despite modest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644528
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Promoting the Use of Capital Markets for Infrastructure Financing : Lessons for Securities Markets Regulators in Emerging Market Economies
World Bank Group - 2017
This Note provides guidance to securities markets regulators in emerging market economies (EMEs) about key regulatory issues that could affect the issuance of debt instruments for infrastructure financing over which they have some control. The Note focuses on three areas (placement regime,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645509
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Promoting Competition in the Distribution of Mutual Funds : Lessons for Securities Markets Regulatory Authorities in Emerging Market Economies
World Bank Group - 2017
This Policy Note focuses on distribution channels, the role they play in product diversification and costs, and how regulation can promote competition in mutual funds (MFs) distribution. In many emerging market economics (EMEs) where both the capital markets and the MFs have reached certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645510