Alternative assets represent an increasing share of pension fund assets, and real estate is a cornerstone of that allocation. This paper investigates the trends in pension fund real estate investments over the last three decades, both in private and in public real estate, focusing on the...

Chinese companies have been seeking to climb up the value chain by becoming investors and operators of the infrastructure projects they are contracted to build. Despite their prominent market share in Africa as contractors, Chinese companies face a steep learning curve and have sought to work...

The process of globalization inevitably leads to the rethinking (conceptual reconstruction) of the paradigm of growth and economic development at local, regional, national, European and global level, implicitly on the financial market as a whole. The high challenge, on the one hand, of the...

This paper examines the mechanism of financial globalization and the preconditions needed for its operation, from the aspect of financial development. Using data on financial globalization and financial development from 16 OECD countries during the period of 1988 to 2001, this paper also...

We identify the effect of financial integration on international business cycle synchronization, by utilizing a confidential database on banks' bilateral exposure and employing a country-pair panel instrumental variables approach. Countries that become more integrated over time have less...