Investitionen bilden einen wesentlichen Bestandteil für das wirtschaftliche Wachstum einer Volkswirtschaft. Detaillierte Untersuchungen zu Strukturänderungen der Investitionstätigkeit von Wirtschaftszweigen liefern daher wesentliche Einblicke in wirtschaftliche Entwicklungstendenzen und...

The electricity sector plays a key role in achieving zero-emission targets. The required transition will lead to substantial changes in the supply, demand, and distribution of electricity but also in stakeholder roles. Future market designs may change substantially to accommodate these changes,...

This paper investigates the impact of interest rate liberalization on corporate green investment by taking the cancellation of the lower limit of the loan interest rate of financial institutions by the People's Bank of China in July 2013 as an exogenous quasi-natural experiment. We find that the...

The socially conscious citizen worries that globalization seems to grind social standards ever lower. Workers earn less, the environment suffers, health care declines. Investing for Change shows that socially conscious citizens can change the globalized world in the direction of many common...

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER I-BONDS AND THE DOLLAR -- THE DOLLAR -- OTHER MEASURES ARE FIXED -- IMPORTANT TO INVESTORS -- BANKS AND INSURANCE COMPANIES -- CHAPTER II-BONDS AND COMMON STOCKS -- NATURE OF SECURITY -- SAFE BONDS IMPLY SAFE STOCKS -- WHERE DOES...

Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Financial and Physical Investment in Africa -- The Performance of African Stock Markets Before and After the Global Financial Crisis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Performance of National Stock Market Indices Before and During the Global Crisis -- 2.1 The Nature and...