In this paper, we show that the regional finance-growth nexus in Italy is robust to a series of innovations with respect to the existing literature on the topic. We use finer measures of economic and financial development, as well as instruments with a deeper economic content. We rely on...

This article focuses on the rapidly changing ownership and governance of urban infrastructure networks. While institutional investors are expending capital and time purchasing infrastructure assets in cities around the world, the changes in the management of urban infrastructure networks are...

This study evaluates infrastructure investment and finance in Asia from a global perspective. It provides an overview on infrastructure needs and the various sources of private finance, globally and within Asia, and creates a "bigger picture" for the demand and supply of capital for...

To identify the root causes of sugar cane yield and analysis the financial problems faced by cane growers of Sindh. The main aspect pertains to the capital required for adopting innovative farms technologies relied on appropriate expertise either comes from farmers own savings or through...

Pakistan, till today no research institution has been established for the development of potential sugar cane yield production and increase in the recovery rate of the crushed cane. As a result, sugar recovery is hardly 9.5 percent as against 12-14 percent in other world sugar producing...

This article examines the 2001 dislocation of the headquarters of the iconic US aerospace company, Boeing, out of the Puget Sound region of the State of Washington, its ancestral manufacturing base. It argues the rationale for the exit was the desire on the part of Boeing's increasingly...

The intermediary function of financial corporations is embodied in the redistribution of temporarily free funds raised from certain institutional units to those units that have a need for them. A significant part of such borrowings takes the form of deposits placed with commercial banks. Amounts...

Rural areas in India are underdeveloped relative to urban areas. One result of this has been a migration to urban areas; such migration, in turn, sharpens the problem of sustainability of rural communities. Even though there are some social benefits to urbanization, there are also disadvantages;...

Social infrastructure has endured a long period of neglect in most developed and emerging countries, with chronic underinvestment exposed by the coronavirus crisis 2020. The financial crisis 2007/08 led to a slow revival of economic infrastructure policies, and a growing involvement of...

Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) are an institutional investor class about which relatively little is known. Even though they have trillions of dollars in assets under management, their (typically) highly secretive nature renders them difficult to analyze in an academic context. We utilize...