A number of dramatic changes are currently reshaping infrastructure, a sector that investors and asset managers have traditionally considered to be a safe harbor in the field of alternative investments. Understanding the future of infrastructure is indispensable to guaranteeing a sustainable...

In this paper we compare sources of economic growth in Japan and the United States from 1975 through 2003, focusing on the role of information technology (IT). We have adjusted Japanese data to conform to U.S. definitions in order to provide a rigorous comparison between the two economies. The...

Conventional wisdom has it that global financial markets were as well integrated in the 1890s as in the 1990s, but that it took several post-war decades to regenerate the connections that existed before 1914. This view has emerged from a variety of tests for world financial capital market...

In the presence of lumpy investment cost of adjustment, globalization may have non-conventional effects on the level of investment and its cyclical behavior. Trade openness may lead to a discrete 'jump' in the level of investment, as it may trigger a discrete change in the terms of trade. Such a...

Chapter 1. ESG investment (by Tadahiro Nakajima) -- Chapter 2. Does ESG index have strong conditional correlations with sustainability related stock indices? (by Wenting Zhang, Tadahiro Nakajima, and Shigeyuki Hamori) -- Chapter 3. Measuring Tail dependencies Between ESG and Renewable Energy...

This paper quantifies the welfare impact of a permanent increase in the level of per capita income brought about by a temporary increase in the growth rate of GDP per capita following capital account liberalization. In the immediate aftermath of liberalization, and under a range of assumptions,...

We develop a dynamic multi-country trade model with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology capital. The model nests structural gravity sub-systems for FDI and trade, with accumulation/decumulation of phyisical and technology capital in transition to the steady state....

1 Introduction -- 2 Renewable Energy Transition and Globalisation in the Latin American and Caribbean Region: A Five-Decade Picture -- 3 Does Financial Openness Expand the Renewable Energy Investment in Latin American Countries? -- 4 The Interactions Between Renewable Energy Consumption,...