Purpose: To detect how inflation impacts on economic margins and cash flows, so modifying the relationship among different stakeholders and the nexus of their explicit or implicit contracts. Proper inflation detection is a prerequisite for effective contracting and corporate governance...

Healthcare infrastructural investments are a key strategic issue in countries such as Italy, whose aging population faces severe public budget constraints, exacerbated by the unprecedented recession. The choice between traditional procurement (TP) and Public Private Partnerships/Project Finance...

New or restructured healthcare infrastructures are a typical risky investment, which can be financed in many different and competing ways. Public Private Partnership and project financing techniques are increasingly recognized as an useful and appropriate device.Risk identification, transfer,...

When economies face deflation and de-growth, Central Banks can only activate unconventional monetary policies.Quantitative easing inflates the Central Bank balance sheet, printing money and adding liquidity to the system while qualitative easing modifies the asset composition. With qualitative...

Project finance investments are a key backbone for a wide range of sustainable and bankable new infrastructures; being long term investments, they are highly exposed to inflation risk, which in Public Private Partnerships is mostly borne by the private counterpart and its backing lenders. Prompt...

Global recession, started in 2008, is still proving an unresolved perfect storm and the financial crisis has affected also the real economy, creating widespread social unrest. Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries seem however less affected by the worldwide turmoil, due to...

Project finance investments are highly exposed to inflation risk, especially if they are financed by foreign debt and located in developing countries with volatile currencies. In Public Private Partnerships, inflation risk may be mostly born by the private counterpart and its backing lenders,...